The unveiling is unnerving, and suggests that some dangers are now permanently beyond our control.
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Slant MagazineJoseph Jon Lanthier
Slant MagazineJoseph Jon Lanthier
Volker Sattel takes us on a blank-eyed tour of the country's biggest plants (plus a few from Austria), exposing both the tenuous balance of precision and innovation that has provided 20th-century Western society with its most controversial power source.
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Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
Once that point is made, this push-pull settles into a certain lulling monotony, wandering a wilderness of wires, cooling towers, and a thousand other inscrutable devices, but it is a monotony with an undertone of menace.