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Letter: Nuclear power option includes a lot of risk of exposure
PLANT.VOGTLE
A view of the cooling towers, right, and nuclear reactor containment buildings area, left, at Plant Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant in Waynesboro. - photo by John Bazemore
The universe began with a huge release of radiation. We call it the Big Bang. Some of that radiation is still around, but nobody identified it until 1965 when two men, Amo Penzia and Robert Wilson, radio astronomers working at the Bell Laboratories, heard and identified it. They were working on satellite communication measurements and couldn’t account for some “noise” in the system.