In one corner of the American academy, you have what might be called the Vietnam generation: those who want nothing to do with power, and that includes studying it.

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At Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, electrical engineering professor Dong Ha and his team are in the early stages of studying how to employ body heat to power a circuit.

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Perhaps they could suggest that he turn from promoting his own book to studying Robert Caro's recently published "The Passage of Power, " the fourth installment of the biography of Lyndon Johnson.

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Baskar Vairmohan, the EPRI researcher who conducted the iPad test, said the group is now studying usage to understand whether the explosion of tablets is adding to power consumption or reducing it.

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And even if the revitalization does not occur, the industry says that those students studying nuclear science will still have skills to work in other types of power plants.

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"We feel the power, " declared 22-year-old Moussa Ghaznavi, the son of a rickshaw driver now studying media science.

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