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Energy Impacts

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Heat: Outdoors and Indoors

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Learn about the importance of heat, its sources and how people control it indoors.

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What are the Pros and Cons of Nuclear Energy?

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These two “point-counterpoint” videos provide arguments for and against using nuclear energy to generate electricity.

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How is oil moved from one place to another?

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This backgrounder explains the four main ways that oil is moved over land and water.

Gentilly-2 nuclear reactor

Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste After Decommissioning

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When a nuclear reactor is no longer in use, the radioactivity in its materials remains. That’s why it’s important to safely deal with the radioactive waste those plants leave behind.