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Article: United States: Rural Florida Residents See New Nuclear Power Plant As Boon; Project Will Create Needed Jobs.
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- October 10, 2009
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According to a report in the New And Observer, Jobs are a big reason most residents favor Progress Energy's plan to construct the nation's first nuclear power reactors since the Watts Bar plant in Tennessee came on line in 1996.
"There's an awful lot of hope here," observes Bill Lake, the mayor of this village of 1,700 residents about 90 miles north of Tampa, where the Florida peninsula begins curving west into the Panhandle.
Levy County, population 39,000, has seen plenty of job losses in the last two years as its unemployment rate almost tripled to 12.1 percent. Still, there is hope that the proposed plant will ignite a lethargic economy in one of the ...