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Theres been a lot of talk about nuclearpower recently. Plant owners have been making plans to restart their retired nuclearpower plants, Google signed the first corporate deal to purchase energy from small modular nuclear reactors, and the US pledged to triple its nuclear generating capacity by 2050.
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