The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 209, Issues 4-6National Geographic Society., 2006 - Geography |
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BY CHARLES PETIT N ukes again ? Maybe . 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 ...
BY CHARLES PETIT N ukes again ? Maybe . 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 ...
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... nuclear power reactors already at work . Eight more are under construction , more than in any other nation . The Department of Atomic Energy lauds the greenhouse benefits of nukes , but the main impetus is sheer gigawatt lust . " Our energy ...
... nuclear power reactors already at work . Eight more are under construction , more than in any other nation . The Department of Atomic Energy lauds the greenhouse benefits of nukes , but the main impetus is sheer gigawatt lust . " Our energy ...
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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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