discovered that uranium produced radiation, and nuclear fission was finally discovered in 1938 by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann1. Because of this, and Albert Einstein's equation (E=MC²), people were able to make the first atomic bomb. In 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed with one of these bombs, which only contained a ball of uranium the size of a basketball. After WWll, scientists thought of how to utilize uranium and made the first ever nuclear reactor in 1950. They decided to store all of the waste beneath