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'Person' seems the wrong way to put it. There is always a team involved. The first serious production of electricity from a nuclear reactor was at Calder Hall, UK, in 1956. The US followed soon after with the Shippingport PWR (1957 I think). These early reactors were quite small, about 50 MWe.

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