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April 6, 2012

Utilities Betting Big on Nuclear Energy

Ken Silverstein, Forbes


Energy Collective

The almost-retired John Rowe has been making a lot of headlines lately. It’s not just for Exelon’s merger with Constellation that is now this country’s combined nuclear energy powerhouse. It’s because the King of Nuclear is saying he is unsure that the fuel source will expand in the United States. . .

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