Town has nuclear-powered plans

SCOTTSBORO, Ala.
“Everybody from 35 to 40 years old that grew up around this county in the ’70s, they’ve seen the towers, they knew what it was,” says Tommy Bryant, 36, a utility company manager whose father worked a construction job at Bellefonte. “Most people are really glad about what they’re planning.”

Americans’ confidence in nuclear power waned after the partial meltdown of a reactor at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island in 1979 and the explosion in 1986 at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine that spread radioactive material across Europe.

Today, surging demand for electricity, concerns about air pollution and the Bush administration’s push to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil are prompting renewed interest in nuclear energy.

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