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1. Answer the following questions and give examples.
1) What do statistics of 2008 show?
2) What countries depend on nuclear power more than others?
3) What is the same about nuclear power and coal burning power plants?
4) What is the key difference between them?
5) What is fission?
6) What are people's opinions related to nuclear power?
7) What accidents make them feel negative?
8) How many countries depend on nuclear power?
9) When you hear the words "nuclear power", what do you imagine?
10) Is there any difference between words "nuclear" and "atomic"?
2. Decide whether the following statements are true or false according to the text.
1) They provided more than 15 percent of the world's electricity in 2008.
2) In France about 77 percent of the country's electricity comes from nuclear power.
3) In Baltic republics nuclear power plants supply 65 percent of the electricity overall.
4) The technology of nuclear power is a low-cost, low-emission alternative to fossil fuels.
5) It doesn't produce any negative impact.
6) According to data of July 2008, there were more than 430 operating nuclear power plants.
7) In the United States some states benefit more than others.
8) Power plants that depend on atomic energy don't operate that differently from a typical fuel burning power plant.
9) Coal burning power plant heats water into pressurized steam, which drives a turbine generator.
10) Nuclear plants depend on the heat that occurs during nuclear fusion.