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One of these places built after similar examples at ZEEP employed thousands of people in Bruce County after its construction in the 1980s. One of these places built under Premier Joey Smallwood has led to decades of legal disputes over its fixed contract signed in 1969 with a neighboring province. Devices used in these places following the CANDU design were developed independently in Chalk River, Ontario. In the 1960s, Quebec’s government funded the building of these places in Churchill (10[1])Falls and the James Bay Project. Most of Ontario was affected (10[1])by a glitch in one of these places in Ohio in August 2003. (10[2])An incident at one of these places that might have affected Windsor, Ontario is the subject of the book We Almost Lost Detroit. Notable safety scares occurred at, for 10 points, what kind of place including Fermi 1 (-5[1])and Three Mile Island? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: power plants [accept nuclear power plants; accept hydroelectric dams or hydroelectric power plants; accept nuclear reactors]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Albert Zhang (UG)Columbia CColumbia A7810
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt (DII)NYU AVassar8910
Jack Rado (DII)Columbia BJohn Jay10210
Seth EbnerJohns HopkinsNYU B10210
Ethan Furman (DII)HaverfordRowan140-5
Ashish KumbhardareRowanHaverford14410

Summary

2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell01/27/2024Y1100%0%0%84.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU01/27/2024Y9100%0%11%106.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota01/27/2024Y2100%0%50%144.50
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska01/27/2024Y6100%0%33%120.33
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers01/27/2024Y5100%0%20%103.00
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt01/27/2024Y5100%0%20%114.80