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Meltdown (2020)

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Nuclear Energy - The United States Promises Before You and Therefore Before the World

"Electricity produced by nuclear energy would be, quote unquote, too cheap to meter," became a catchphrase in the 1950s. It wasn't just companies and experts pushing this new narrative; it was also former U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower. "The United States knows that peaceful power from atomic energy is no dream of the future," he says.

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