TWO RIVERS, Wis. (AP) — Two advocacy groups have filed their opposition to expanding the Point Beach nuclear power plant. Wisconsin Citizens’ Utility Board and Clean Wisconsin, in a filing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, say the state has more ...

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By BEN FELLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration’s planned loan guarantee to build the first nuclear power plant in the United States in almost three decades is part of a broad shift in energy strategy to ...

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By DAVE GRAM Associated Press Writer MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Radioactive tritium, a carcinogen discovered in potentially dangerous levels in groundwater at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, has now tainted at least 27 of the nation’s 104 nuclear reactors — ...

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Duncan Mansfield AP Writer Knoxville, TN — The Babcock & Wilcox Co. announced plans Wednesday for a new class of mini nuclear reactors to be built in North American factories and shipped by rail to generating sites, and the Tennessee ...

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