<div class='node-body'><p>RIO DE JANEIRO - Disasters are the new midwives of history. But in order to play this role, they need to be catastrophic, like the accidents in Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011 that led governments to suspend and even abolish their nuclear energy programs.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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