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Idaho is top pick for Energy Department nuclear test reactor

by Keith Ridler
| November 20, 2020 12:11 AM

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. government said Thursday that Idaho is its preferred choice ahead of Tennessee for a test reactor to be built as part of an effort to revamp the nation’s fading nuclear power industry by developing safer fuel and power plants.

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