1962

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• First advanced gas-cooled reactor is built in England.
• First nuclear-powered surface ship, N.S. Savannah, put to sea.

1965

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• ANS's second journal, Nuclear Applications (now Nuclear Technology) is started.

1966

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• The Advanced Testing Reactor at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory begins operation for materials testing and isotope generation.

1968

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• ANS begins collaboration with U.S. Atomic Energy Commission on monograph series, funded by AEC.<

1969

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• First U.S. large-scale nuclear power plant begins operation in Shippingport, Penn
• The International Atomic Energy Agency is formed with 18 member countries to promote peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
• ANS Standards Committee is formed.