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McCain calls for 45 new nuclear reactors in U.S. by 2030 |
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19 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:51 AM on 19 Jun 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain, at a campaign event Wednesday in Missouri, called for 45 new nuclear reactors to be built in the United States by 2030, with a longer-term goal of 100 new reactors. Existing nuke plants currently provide some 20 percent of U.S. electricity, but no new nuke plants have been built in the U.S. since the 1970s due to the enormous costs of nuclear-p ... |
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| Topics: John McCain, news, nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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