A nuclear revival in Southeast

With guaranteed federal loans and insurance protection promised to the first power companies to build a new wave of nuclear plants, the race is on for up to 10 stations between Maryland and Mississippi.

Progress Energy, which has almost 1.4 million customers in North Carolina and South Carolina, expects to announce a preferred site in one of the two states this month, spokesman Keith Poston said. A site for a second nuclear plant in Florida, where the company has an additional 1.5 million customers, should be announced by April.

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