Nuclear fission in the context of the span of history is, like the ancient discovery of fire, game-changing.

FORBES: Post Fukushima-- burn more coal and oil, and hire more engineers not regulators

John Bennet, a professor of Aegean archaeology at Sheffield University, UK, commented that any new discovery of a channel should be viewed in a wider context.

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