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- BUSINESS, Page 65Business NotesNUCLEAR POWERFresh Start, Or Last Gasp?
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- New Hampshire's Seabrook plant has produced some of the
- nuclear power industry's fiercest battles, leading to more than
- 2,500 arrests of protesters since the mid-1970s and to repeated
- announcements of its demise. Yet like the phoenix, the nuclear
- plant has a way of rising again. Last week the Nuclear
- Regulatory Commission voted 3 to 0 to give the station a license
- to operate at full power. Plant officials praised the decision
- as a "triumph of reason." They predicted that the reactor, now
- eleven years overdue for its start-up and carrying a price tag
- of $6.4 billion, more than six times its original budget, would
- begin sending electricity across New England by summer.
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- Even so, opponents are steadfast. James Shannon, the
- attorney general of Massachusetts, plans to appeal the decision
- in federal court. Nuclear power opponents contend that the
- decision represents no rebirth for the industry, since the
- plant's cost overruns have prompted hefty rate increases for
- consumers in New England.
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