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energyTHEN: Atomic Energy On the Grid

Length 1:06
Created 04.29.11
Air Date 02.27.11

 

We bring you the fanfare surrounding the opening of the nation's first commercial-scale nuclear power plant in the 1950s, and how one family found this new form of power appetizing.

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