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A new dawn for nuclear power

02 Jul 2007

Despite its environmentally unfriendly image, nuclear power is firmly back on the world's energy agenda thanks to the need to cut carbon-dioxide emissions. Paul Norman, Andrew Worrall and Kevin Hesketh describe how the next generation of nuclear power stations will be cleaner and more efficient than ever

Global warming is rooted in one of the most fundamental ideas of Newtonian physics: there is no act

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