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US Energy Secretary calls for more nuclear power while celebrating $35 billion Georgia reactors - Statesboro Herald

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US Energy Secretary calls for more nuclear power while celebrating $35 billion Georgia reactors - Statesboro Herald

WAYNESBORO — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Friday called for more nuclear reactors to be built in the United States and worldwide. But the CEO of the Georgia utility that just finished the first two scratch-built American reactors in a generation at a cost of nearly $35 billion says his company isn't ready to pick up that baton.

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