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The Energy Produced By The Breaking Down Of The Atom Is A Very Poor Kind Of Thing.
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The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of
thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation
of these atoms is talking moonshine.
-- Lord Rutherford, 1933
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