The parts of a boat have funny names to a landsman. Many of the names go back hundreds of years and their origins are often lost. Some make sense only if you know something of sailing ship construction in the 16th century.
Cheap dreams, expensive realities. In the dawn of the nuclear era, cost was expected to be one of the technology's advantages, not one of its drawbacks. The first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis Strauss, predicted in a 1954 speech that nuclear power would someday make electricity âtoo cheap to meter.â.
but what we really want is the product of the power plant not the plant itself that is dependable electricity here nuclear excels delivering electricity at an excellent price with capacity factors now exceeding 90 % in the u s and south korea perhaps even more importantly this price will be reliable