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What future for nuclear power?

The outlook for civil nuclear power has blackened everywhere in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident. Here is what governments other than the Soviet should now do.

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What future for nuclear power?. Nature 321, 367–368 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/321367a0

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