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A machine to save the world

Sabri Ben-Achour May 4, 2016
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Actuality, by Marketplace and Quartz

A machine to save the world

Sabri Ben-Achour May 4, 2016
This photo taken 28 July 2004 in Cadarache shows a technician checking a plasma heating system inside a chamber of the Tore Supra nuclear reactor. BORIS HORVAT/AFP/Getty Images
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