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Featured article: February 25, 2004

Oxyrhynchus papyrus

Oxyrhynchus is an archaeological site in Egypt, one of the most important ever discovered. For the past century the area around Oxyrhynchus has been continuously excavated, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts from the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods of Egyptian history. Among the texts discovered at Oxyrhynchus are plays of Menander and the so-called Gospel of Thomas, an important early Christian document. (more...)

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Map of Lewis and Clark's Track, Across the Western Portion of North America.Map of Lewis and Clark's Track

The Lewis and Clark expedition (1804–1806) was the first United States overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back, led by Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark, of the US Army.

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Featured list: Nuclear power by country

The Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant in France. France produces 80% of its electricity by nuclear power.

Nuclear power is a method for generating energy by harnessing the radioactivity of atoms.

In addition to the nations listed below, several other nations, such as Australia, have research reactors, but no plans to diverge into commercial nuclear power; only the commercial reactors registered with the International Atomic Energy Agency are listed below. Nations are listed first by number of reactors, then by peak power output in megawatts. Regions in italics are added for comparison.

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Country Number of
reactors
Power output
MW
Status of nuclear program Constructing Planned or Ordered Proposed Region
World439370,7212862162World
European Union (details), (List)147130,26727Europe
 United States (details), (List)10499,209124Americas
 France (details)5963,363France produces 80% of its electricity by nuclear power.11Europe
 Japan (details)5547,59311Asia
 Russia (details)3121,743Nuclear energy development program was adopted in October 20067919CIS

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