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Why Going Nuclear Is the Only Good Choice

A 550-ton outer dome is hoisted in place last year at the construction site of the world’s first commercial small modular reactor, in Changjiang Li, China.

Photographer: China News Service

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Maybe two weeks?

That’s how long we get before civilization collapses in the event of a complete blackout in a western country, or so a German study in 2010 concluded.