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Article: Former Senator Johnston Says Future U.S. Prosperity Depends on Nuclear Power; Study Questions Future Supply of Natural Gas, Raising Profile of Nuclear Power Industry Even Higher.
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- June 7, 2002
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PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Former Senator J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, citing uncertainties in U.S. natural gas production, told a gathering of nuclear power and electric utility chief executives that a healthy American economy is directly dependent upon a renewed commitment to nuclear power for electricity generation.
"The only realistic way for the United States economy to continue to prosper is to embrace more coal-fired plants and initiate a return to more nuclear plants," Johnston said in the keynote address at an executive conference held by Framatome ANP, Inc. "I have been saying for years that a strong role for nuclear power is inevitable in our future. ...