Notes on the Text

1. provides as profound effect for the benefit of civilization — оказы­вает такое же глубокое влияние на развитие цивилизации

2. In their turn — в свою очередь

3. out-of-the-way regions — отдаленные районы

4. In short — короче говоря

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1. What possibilities have the achievements in the study of atom structure opened up?

2. What question did people ask scientists after the explosion of the first atomic bomb?

3. What was the main problem in applying the immense power of fissioned nucleus to peaceful purposes?

4. When and where did the first atomic power station start working?

5. What was the rate of development of atomic power engineering?

6. Why are mobile nuclear installations convenient?

7. How long can they operate without being recharged?

8. What thermonuclear process takes place at fantastically high temperature?

9. What element plays the decisive part in fusion process?

10. What can this element be extracted from?

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pumped storage plant – насосная гидростанция

at will - по желанию

dump - сбрасывать

head of water — высота напора воды

HEP — hydroelectric plant- гидроаккумулирующая станция

reinforce v — усилить

peak load hours — часы максимальной (пиковой) нагрузки

twice as much — вдвое больше

Pumped storage plants are designed and built to rein­force nuclear power. There are energy load peak hours during the day when twice as much electricity is required. At present the problem has become international.

It would seem a simple solution to keep several generating units in reserve for such cases at atomic power plants, for example. However, a nuclear reactor cannot be stopped at will. The best operational regime for react­ors is even loads throughout twenty-four hours. There­fore it is best to operate atomic power plants in combi­nation with pumped storage plants.

During the peak load hours a plant of this type dumps its water in the so-called lower reservoir. At night when it gets excess electricity from the atomic power plant it pumps the water from the lower reservoir into the upper one as "pumped storage". It accumulates a head of water which then turns into energy during the peak load hours.

Many countries are building pumped storage plants whose total capacity throughout the world is tens of millions of kilowatts. The biggest plants have been built in the United States, such as the Ludington atomic station with the capacity of one million 872 thousand kilowatts.

We are planning to construct a 1.2 million km pumped storage plant at Zagorsk near Moscow. It will include a HEP, an atomic power plant and two pumped storage plants.

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