GENERAL ATOMICS
History
| Year | Detail |
|---|---|
| 1955 | The company was established. |
| 1957 | The company and the Texas Atomic Energy Research Foundation started a four-year research program worth $10,000,000. |
| 1961 | The company introduced the Magneform metalworking machine. |
| 1971 | The company introduced Pyrolite medical carbon for artificial heart valves for the high-temperature gas-cooled reactor. |
| 1974 | AEC has selected the company to develop a Doublet III magnetic fusion experiment in San Diego. |
| 1988 | The Department of Energy's New Production Reactor program has selected the company's modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor. |
| 1999 | The company and Sandia National Laboratories unveiled Lynx synthetic aperture radar for use in manned and unmanned aerial vehicles. |
| 2010 | The company unveiled the Energy Multiplier Module (EM2), a gas turbine modular helium reactor. |
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