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Article: Nuclear power?
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2007
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Byline: Andy Lenderman
Apr. 15--First they heard from private companies that might build a nuclear power plant in Chaves County: The $25 billion construction project would bring 15,000 jobs and plenty of electricity to sell.
Then the critics: Nuclear waste is bad for our health. We like our town the way it is.
And what about the water?
Ranch owner Jarrod Johnson, his wife, Laura, and several of their neighbors were listening to a crash course on President Bush's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership,a program that aims to build a prototype nuclear power plant and a spent-fuel recycling center near Roswell- or in one of 10 other places in ...