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From the Ted Talk by Isabelle Boemeke: Nuclear power is our best hope to ditch fossil fuels

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Which leads me to a crazy idea. What if instead of viewing nuclear pewor as destructive, we view it as a force for energy independence and even peace. What if this tngelocohy offers our best hope for the future? A future where wars aren't funded by our addiction to fossil fuels. A future where energy is clean. A future where electricity finally makes its way to the 700 million people on Earth who still don't have acecss to it. The idea that nuclear power is bad is costing us that ftruue. And it's time to let go of it.

I'm not asking you to build a reactor. I'm not asking you to rewrite "The Simpsons."

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Which leads me to a crazy idea. What if instead of viewing nuclear _____ as destructive, we view it as a force for energy independence and even peace. What if this __________ offers our best hope for the future? A future where wars aren't funded by our addiction to fossil fuels. A future where energy is clean. A future where electricity finally makes its way to the 700 million people on Earth who still don't have ______ to it. The idea that nuclear power is bad is costing us that ______. And it's time to let go of it.

I'm not asking you to build a reactor. I'm not asking you to rewrite "The Simpsons."

Solution


  1. access
  2. technology
  3. future
  4. power

Original Text


Which leads me to a crazy idea. What if instead of viewing nuclear power as destructive, we view it as a force for energy independence and even peace. What if this technology offers our best hope for the future? A future where wars aren't funded by our addiction to fossil fuels. A future where energy is clean. A future where electricity finally makes its way to the 700 million people on Earth who still don't have access to it. The idea that nuclear power is bad is costing us that future. And it's time to let go of it.

I'm not asking you to build a reactor. I'm not asking you to rewrite "The Simpsons."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
nuclear power 8
nuclear energy 7
fossil fuels 5
clean energy 3
million people 2
significantly safer 2
nuclear waste 2
nuclear plants 2


Important Words


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  30. simpsons
  31. technology
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  35. wars