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Volume 264 Issue 5585, 2 December 1976

Opinion

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News

  • Vera Rich looks at a USSR river diversion project which may use nuclear explosions

    • Vera Rich
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  • Peter Pockley looks at Australian science after 12 months of Mr Fraser's government

    • Peter Pockley
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  • An agreement by the Ontario government to give a paper company the right to cut timber and build a mill in the largest area of the province ever proposed for such a purpose has caused a storm in the provincial legislature. David Spurgeon reports from Ottawa

    • David Spurgeon
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  • Colin Norman reports from Washington on a heavily–criticised study from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

    • Colin Norman
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  • Gillian Boucher reports on the latest developments in the controversy over the reprocessing of nuclear fuel

    • Gillian Boucher
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Article

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Letter

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Matters Arising

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Book Review

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