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Nuclear Power
Title: Nuclear Power
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 2953 | Pages: 12.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Nuclear Power
. GENISIS
1.1 In the Beginning.
The Manhattan project. A team of scientists led by J Robert Oppenheimer in 1942 sought to harness the power of the splitting atom. The United States, Britain, Canada, Russia and Germany raced to design the weapon that would reshape the art of warfare forever. Louis Slotin, a Canadian scientist began to flirt with death as he slid two spheres of enriched uranium together with a pair of screwdrivers. His object was to …showed first 75 words of 2953 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2953 total…and more completely applied to the benifit of all nations. We shall continue to develop nuclear power in our country in accordance with our plans until the year 2000.”
The message was clear: there was no chance that nuclear power could be removed from the calculations of the world. The safety conferance declarations made plain that what was on offer was not abolition of nuclear power but only the possibility of an improvement in its safety.
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