The first US nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters
Georgia Power Co. announced that Unit 3 at Plant Vogtle, southeast of Augusta, has completed testing and is now sending power to the grid reliably. $31 billion.
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New Georgia reactor shows benefits and costs of nuclear power
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Nuclear waste U.S. could power the U.S. for 100 years
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Farewell to Three Mile Island: A timeline of the plant's history
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Vogtle Electric Generating Plant - Wikipedia
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The Real Obstacle to Nuclear Power - The Atlantic
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In Tennessee, Time Comes for a Nuclear Plant Four Decades in the
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The controversial future of nuclear power in the U.S.
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I'm in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough
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Radioactive nuclear waste sits on Great Lakes shores
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First new U.S. nuclear reactor in almost two decades set to begin
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Nuclear power's landmark project stumbles across the finish line
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Will climate change force the future of nuclear energy to look
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Building nuclear power plants
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How China became king of new nuclear power, how U.S. could catch up