Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Could nuclear energy ever come to be known as the other “green” power source? Probably not without a steady supply of nuclear engineers, many of them likely from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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