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Article: Nuclear power's 'renaissance'? The growing need for electricity prompts second look at reactors.(PAGE ONE)(SPECIAL REPORT)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2006
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Byline: Joyce Howard Price, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
It's been 20 years since the deadly explosion and fire at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and with the passing of two decades comes a time of renewed interest in nuclear energy, given the high levels of safety and production at U.S. power plants and the advancement of technology.
Industry leaders are calling this the "renaissance of nuclear energy," and their only regret is that new nuclear power plants can't come on line to fill the urgent need for more electricity.
"We'll need additional energy in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast in 2009 to 2011, but the first new nuclear plants won't ...