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Letter: Letter

Published 13 February 1999

From John Woods

I tried to persuade a city friend to buy the 1.2 gigawatt “never been run”
nuclear power plant. Naturally, he asked how much it was. When I told him it
cost $250 million, he wondered if that included postage.

jhwoods@netscape.net

Issue no. 2173 published 13 February 1999

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