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NRC's Science 101

How does a nuclear reaction work? What is radiation? How do you enrich uranium? These and other questions are answered in this basic science series called NRC's Science 101. These are all written by NRC experts and all originally ran on the agency's blog, but they are reproduced here in PDF for easy downloading.

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