 The AIF was formally incorporated on April 10, 1953 in New York City, and marked the beginning of the commercial nuclear power industry in the United StatesThe first Executive Director of AIF was Charles Robbins.As a profit trade association the AIF advocated the peaceful uses of atomic energy and increasing the role of the private sector in its development.Its first order of business was to advocate revising the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 to allow and foster the commercial ownership of non weapons nuclear facilities, such as production of radioactive isotopes and nuclear power plants.