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Could Nebraska and Iowa go nuclear as part of shift away from fossil fuels?
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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.
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Could Nebraska and Iowa go nuclear as part of shift away from fossil fuels?
- Nancy Gaarder Omaha World-Herald
- Feb 21, 2022
- Feb 21, 2022 Updated May 23, 2023
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Zac Zacarola, environmental chemist, goes through procedure for monitoring out, verifying that he didn't pick up contamination in a radiologcal controlled area, on Friday, June 17, 2016, at Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, Nebraska. The station operates the largest single unit electrical generator in Nebraska.
- SARAH HOFFMAN, THE WORLD-HERALD
Cooper Nuclear Station operates the largest single unit electrical generator in Nebraska.
- OMAHA WORLD-HERALD FILE PHOTO
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Nancy Gaarder Omaha World-Herald
In this sleepy Wyoming town that has relied on coal for over a century, a company founded by the man who revolutionized personal computing is launching an ambitious project to counter climate change: A nationwide reboot of nuclear energy technology. Until recently, Kemmerer was little-known for anything except J.C. Penney's first store and some 55-million-year-old fish fossils in quarries down the road. Then in November, a company started by Bill Gates, TerraPower, announced it had chosen Kemmerer for a nontraditional, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor that will bring on workers from a local coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon.
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Zac Zacarola, environmental chemist, goes through procedure for monitoring out, verifying that he didn't pick up contamination in a radiologcal controlled area, on Friday, June 17, 2016, at Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, Nebraska. The station operates the largest single unit electrical generator in Nebraska.
- SARAH HOFFMAN, THE WORLD-HERALD
Cooper Nuclear Station operates the largest single unit electrical generator in Nebraska.
- OMAHA WORLD-HERALD FILE PHOTO
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