The first full-scale commercial nuclear power plant was opened in 1956 at Calder Hall, England.
The plant was opened in the 1930s by Eldorado Mining and Refining to process radium and has undergone several cleanups.
The plant was opened in 1987 by Compaq and was taken over by Hewlett-Packard in 2002; at one point, it employed more than 2,500 people.
The Pasadena, Texas-based company's CEO Fred Cannon yesterday said its Columbus, Mississippi plant was opened on schedule this month and is operated at anticipated production yields.
The Bushehr nuclear power plant was opened with great fanfare in August in the presence of Iranian and Russian nuclear energy officials and domestic and international media.
The government has made the development of the fishing industry a priority, and a fish-processing plant was opened in the village of Amanau in 2004.
An ammonium nitrate plant was opened in 1971, based on gases generated in the coking unit of the steel mill at Ḥulwān.
A large aircraft-manufacturing plant was opened at Hanzhong in southwestern Shaanxi in the mid-1970s, and since then plants producing machinery, auto parts, and pharmaceuticals have also been established around the city.
[The following paragraph has been corrected since publication due to incorrect information supplied by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority at the time of writing ] The Sellafield Mox Plant has not shipped any fuel to Japan since the plant was opened in 2002.
By 1982, however, all ore supplies were exhausted, and in that year a plant was opened to extract ore from tailings in an effort to keep the town alive.
