Investors who buy IPOs (and who were scorched in 1999 and 2000) need to know that the quality coming out of 2001's pipe is of purer grade.

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Each day 870, 000 liters of sewage pass through before being discharged, 99% decontaminated, through a 25-centimeter-diameter pipe into the harbor where grade-schoolers learn to tack.

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The AP1000 has half the valves, 35% fewer safety-grade pumps, 80% less pipe and 85% less cable than existing plants.

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