![2015 – The US Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the USS Nautilus. The Nuclear Navy Has Logged More Than 6,600 Reactor Years of Accident-Free Operations While Traveling Over 155 Million Miles on Nuclear Power.](https://virginianuclear.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/hc-pictures-uss-nautilus-ssn-571-20140117-007.jpg)
![2015 – The US Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the USS Nautilus. The Nuclear Navy Has Logged More Than 6,600 Reactor Years of Accident-Free Operations While Traveling Over 155 Million Miles on Nuclear Power.](https://virginianuclear.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/hc-pictures-uss-nautilus-ssn-571-20140117-007.jpg)
![2007 – Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant Becomes the First U.S. Nuclear Reactor to Come Online in the 21st Century.](https://virginianuclear.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Browns_ferry_NPP.jpg)
2007 – Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant Becomes the First U.S. Nuclear Reactor to Come Online in the 21st Century.
![August 16, 2003 – The USS Virginia (SSN-774), the First Virginia Class Nuclear Submarine is Launched.](https://virginianuclear.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/submarine.jpg)
August 16, 2003 – The USS Virginia (SSN-774), the First Virginia Class Nuclear Submarine is Launched.
![April 30, 2002 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Oldest in the World, is Shut Down](https://virginianuclear.org/wp-content/uploads/1954/06/aes-top.jpg)
April 30, 2002 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Oldest in the World, is Shut Down
![2000 – The NRC Issued the First-Ever License Renewal to Constellation Energy’s Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant](https://virginianuclear.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Calvert_Cliffs_retouched.jpg)
2000 – The NRC Issued the First-Ever License Renewal to Constellation Energy’s Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant
![1996 – Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar 1 Nuclear Power Plant is the Last Unit to be Licensed in the United States in the 20th Century.](https://virginianuclear.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Watts_Bar-6.jpg)