The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 209, Issues 4-6National Geographic Society., 2006 - Geography |
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The United States operates 103 nuclear power reactors - that's a quarter of the world's total - even if the most famous U.S. nuke isn't even real . That would be the Springfield plant , where doofus TV cartoon hero Homer Simpson is a ...
The United States operates 103 nuclear power reactors - that's a quarter of the world's total - even if the most famous U.S. nuke isn't even real . That would be the Springfield plant , where doofus TV cartoon hero Homer Simpson is a ...
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Climate change , for many , trumps any fear of 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 ...
Climate change , for many , trumps any fear of 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 ...
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For nuclear power to replace them , nations would have to build thousands of expensive reactors . Even industry advocates like Adrian Heymer of the Nuclear Energy Institute concede that won't happen : " Meeting future energy needs will ...
For nuclear power to replace them , nations would have to build thousands of expensive reactors . Even industry advocates like Adrian Heymer of the Nuclear Energy Institute concede that won't happen : " Meeting future energy needs will ...
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Features | 12 |
FOSSILS | 14 |
Inside Chernobyl 32 Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded blanketing | 36 |
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