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Show TSJViE (? f m FACTS & FANCIES Electricity is delivered at nearly the speed of light 186,000 miles a second equivalent to traveling seven and a half times around the earth in one second. Electricity Electri-city is used at almost the same instant it is produced. It takes ten to 12 years to license and construct a nuclear power plant in the U.S. twice the time it takes in Japan, says the Edison Electric Institute, because the regulatory process has become tortuous and unpredictable. unpre-dictable. Delay can result in unnecessary cost increases of some $120 million a year in construction. One kilowatt (1,000 watts) is approximately the amount of electricity needed to oper-ate oper-ate a steam iron for one hour. |