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Chapter K - The energy crisis Flashcards

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Travailleur

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Worker

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Travailleur (adj)

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Hard-working

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La classe ouvrière

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The working-class

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Atelier

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Workshop

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Main d’œuvre, le personnel

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Workforce

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Permis de travail

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Work permit

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Vie active

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Working life

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Stage (en entreprise)

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Work placement

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Expérience professionnelle

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Work experience

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Cadre (contexte)

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Framework

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La paperasserie

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Paperwork

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Émergents (pays)

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Emerging

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Inquiétant, préoccupant

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Worrying

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Préjudiciable, nuisible

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Damaging

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Sous jacent

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Underlying

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Durable (solution)

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Lasting

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Prometteur

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Promising

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Intransigeant

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Uncompromising

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Le phénomène des sans-abris

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Homelessness

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Efficacité (remède,politique…)

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Effectiveness

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Inutilité

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Uselessness, pointlessness

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Conscience

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Awareness

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Absurdité

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Meaninglessness

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Impuissance

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Powerlessness

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Cruauté, caractère impitoyable

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Ruthlessness

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Bonne volonté

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Willingness

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Plan en trois étapes

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Three-stage plan

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Week-end de 3 jours

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Three-day weekend

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Conflit qui dure depuis/ qui a duré neuf mois

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Nine-month dispute

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Les 35 heures

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The 35-hour (working) week

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Mandat de 4 ans

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Four-year term (of office)

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Programme en 14 points

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14-point programme

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Billet de 20 livres

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Twenty-pound note

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Billet de 50 dollars

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Fifty-dollar bill

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bon du Trésor à 10 ans

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Ten-year Treasury bill

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La guerre des 6 jours

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The Six Day War

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Marché de 50 000 dollars

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$50,000 deal

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Émission de télé de 30 minutes

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30-minute TV show

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Entreprise qui vaut des millions de dollars

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Multi-billion dollar company

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Avancé

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Advanced

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Partial, tendancieux

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Biased

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Privilégié

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Privileged

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Défavorisé

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Disadvantaged, unprivileged

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Démuni

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Deprived

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Handicapé

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Disabled, handicapped

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Désaffecté, abandonné (usine…)

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Disused

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Sacré

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Sacred

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Cultivé, instruit

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Educated

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Indigné, scandalisé

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Outraged

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Préoccupé, inquiet

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Concerned

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Qualifié

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Skilled (worker)

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Travailleur manuel

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Manual worker

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Ouvrier du bâtiment

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Construction worker

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Sauveteur

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Rescue worker

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Travailleur humanitaire

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Relief worker

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Quelqu’un qui travaille pour une organisation caritative

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Charity worker

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Travailleur sexuel

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Sex worker

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Chercheur

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Research worker

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Col blanc

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White-collar worker

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Membre du personnel soignant

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Heath-care worker

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Exprès

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On purpose

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D’un côté

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On the one hand

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Dans l’ensemble

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On the whole

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A première vue

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Oh the face of it

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Sur le papier

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On paper

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Si l’on regarde de plus près

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On closer inspection

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A la télé

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On tv

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Dans l’ensemble, globalement

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On balance

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Par principe

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On principle

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La pénurie d’énergie

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The energy gap, the energy shortfall

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Venir à manquer d’énergie

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To run out of energy

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Manquer de pétrole

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To be short of oil

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S’épuiser

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To become depleted, to become exhausted

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L’épuisement des ressources

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The depletion, the exhaustion of resources

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Gaspiller / économiser de l’énergie

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To waste / save energy

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Économies d’énergie

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Energy savings

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Quatre quatre energivore

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Gas guzzling SUV

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Mesure d’économie d’énergie

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Energy-saving measure

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Le pétrole

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Oil

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Le gaz

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Gas

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Le charbon

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Coal

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Les énergies fossiles

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Fossil fuels

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Les réserves de pétrole

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Oil supplies, oil reserves

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Le prix du pétrole

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Oil prices

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100 dollars le baril

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$100 a barrel

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Une centrale électrique, thermique

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A power station, a power plant

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Centrale fonctionnant au charbon

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Coal-fired/oil-fired power station

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Les dérives du pétrole

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Oil products

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Réduire la consommation de pétrole

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To reduce oil consumption

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Un pétrolier, un tanker

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An oil tanker

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Une plateforme pétrolière

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An oil rig

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Un puits de pétrole

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An oil well

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L’essence

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Petrol (GB) gas (US)

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Renouvelable

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Renewable

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Les sources d’énergie renouvelable

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Renewables

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L’énergie éolienne

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Wind power

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Une éolienne

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A wind turbine, a windmill

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L’énergie solaire

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Solar power, solar energy

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Un panneau solaire

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A solar panel

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Les bio-carburants

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Biofuels

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La biomasse

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Biomass

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Le bioéthanol

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Bioethanol

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La géothermie

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Geothermal energy

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L’énergie nucléaire

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Nuclear power, nuclear energy

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Une centrale nucléaire

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A nuclear plant

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Le nucléaire

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The nuclear industry

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Des installations nucléaires

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Nuclear facilities

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Les déchets nucléaires

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Nuclear waste

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Des matériaux radioactifs

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Radioactive material

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Éliminer les déchets

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To dispose of waste

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L’elimination des déchets nucléaires

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Nuclear waste disposal

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L’hydroélectricité

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Hydroelectricity, hydropower

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Un barrage

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A dam

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Une voiture électrique

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A battery-powered car

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