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Nuclear Power Under Attack Again - This Time From The Ballot Box

Jim Conca

APRIL 18, 2018

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona, our biggest power plant, is under another political attack that could cause Arizona to lose not only its biggest source of electricity of any type, but its biggest source of low-carbon energy, ten times what all of its renewables are producing.

Nuclear Power Under Attack Again - This Time From The Ballot Box

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