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The nuclear reaction A tour of Britain's nuclear power stations

telegraph.co.uk
Nov. 14, 2008
It's clean safe and - if done correctly - cheap. Yet thanks to a series of horrific expensive blunders Britain remains terrified of nuclear power. From Sizewell B to Windscale Paul Kendall tours the industry's greatest triumphs and disasters and asks: why so scared? Photographs by Daniel Stier
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