The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 209, Issues 4-6National Geographic Society., 2006 - Geography |
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... Nuclear fission emits none of the greenhouse gases that are warming the climate . The Nuclear Energy Institute estimates that without nuclear power playing its current role in the generation of electricity , the U.S. would spew 29 ...
... Nuclear fission emits none of the greenhouse gases that are warming the climate . The Nuclear Energy Institute estimates that without nuclear power playing its current role in the generation of electricity , the U.S. would spew 29 ...
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... nuclear energy . Its overwhelming advantage is that it's atmospherically clean , writes Stewart Brand , founder of the 1970s Whole Earth Catalog . Yet , Brand points out : " Nuclear certainly has problems - accidents , waste storage ...
... nuclear energy . Its overwhelming advantage is that it's atmospherically clean , writes Stewart Brand , founder of the 1970s Whole Earth Catalog . Yet , Brand points out : " Nuclear certainly has problems - accidents , waste storage ...
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... nuclear power to replace them , nations would have to build thousands of expensive reactors . Even indus- try advocates like Adrian Heymer of the Nuclear Energy Institute concede that won't happen : " Meeting future energy needs will ...
... nuclear power to replace them , nations would have to build thousands of expensive reactors . Even indus- try advocates like Adrian Heymer of the Nuclear Energy Institute concede that won't happen : " Meeting future energy needs will ...
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Inside Chernobyl 32 Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded blanketing | 36 |
Glen Canyon Revealed 64 A sustained drought has shriveled Lake Powell in the Southwest | 72 |
COVER U S soldiers patrol devastated Market Street in San Francisco | 120 |
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