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American Going Nuclear?
Apr 16 2009, Marco Villa

A heated debate was been ongoing for years as to whether the United States should build a new nuclear power plant; the first since the 1970s. Proponents make their case on the grounds that nuclear power is safe, need not be imported and is clean. Thus is.

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