“The Vogel Unit Four will turn on, you know, in a few months.”
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“The commercial nuclear fuel in this country has never caused any, you know, radiation harm to humans.”
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“A huge fraction of that gigantic gap must be filled by nuclear power, or else we're never gonna get to net zero.”
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