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In the middle of the 20th century the first nuclear reactor was produced by the United States in order to make the atomic bomb which was used to end world war two. In less than ten years the United States would manufacture a nuclear reactor that would be used to create energy. In 1951 the first civilian power experiment took place in the Idaho desert. Now in 2002 there are 109 active reactors in the United States that provide the energy needed to power only "twenty percent of electricity for Americans utilities. "(Lecture, January 30, 2002) This is twice the amount of the next largest nuclear energy producing country, France which has fifty five reactors. "There are five types of nuclear reactors worldwide these reactors use different methods to produce energy. The reactors are the pressurized water, boiling water, heavy water, graphite moderated, and liquid metal fast breeder." (Lecture, March 27, 2002) All five of these reactors produce nuclear energy, but with the production of nuclear energy radioactive waste is produced. "There is no easy solution as clean as simply sending the waste on a rocket into the sun, or putting it forever at the bottom of the deepest oceans." (Text, p193) In Nevada at Yucca Mountain the United States has planned a deep repository in the side of the mountain where the wastes would be stored, but people of Nevada feel this could lead to disaster.