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Word: wairakei (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...turbine is only a beginning. Eventually New Zealand plans to get 250,000 kw. of geothermal electricity out of the Wairakei region, and hundreds of square miles of steam land are awaiting exploitation in the neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Steam of the Fire Goddess | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Zealand government announced last week that the enormous jets of steam that roar out of the ground in the Wairakei district on North Island will be harnessed for a dual purpose. They will generate electricity, and also produce heavy water (deuterium oxide) for use as a moderator in the nuclear power reactors that Britain plans to start building soon (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Geothermal D2O | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

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