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A Radical Reboot of Nuclear Energy
A multibillion-dollar effort to build the first in a new generation of American nuclear power plants is underway outside a small town in Wyoming.
By Sabrina Tavernise, Brad Plumer, Alex Stern, Diana Nguyen, Sydney Harper, Shannon M. Lin, Lexie Diao, Brendan Klinkenberg, Rowan Niemisto, Pat McCusker and Chris Wood