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US gives first-ever OK for small commercial nuclear reactor

by Associated Press
| September 2, 2020 3:03 PM

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials have for the first time approved a design for a small commercial nuclear reactor, and a Utah energy cooperative wants to build 12 of them in Idaho.

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