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Can nuclear energy become a viable alternative to fossil fuels? Almost all of French electricity is generated in nuclear plants, as is half of the electricity in Ukraine, Sweden and Belgium, a third in Finland and South Korea and a fifth in many other countries, among them Spain, Germany, the UK and the USA.
Litany (from Latin litania)
A usually lengthy recitation or enumeration
Any long or tedious speech or recital
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In exchange for some scapegoat, like the fast neutron reactor Superphoenix, see Chap. 9.
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Gómez Cadenas, J.J. (2012). The Anti Nuclear Litany. In: The Nuclear Environmentalist. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2478-6_11
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