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New Mexico Plant Will Upgrade Uranium.

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By Bruce Higgins

National Enrichment Facility in southeastern New Mexico will provide new source of feedstock for nuclear fuel

Nuclear energy currently provides approximately 20 percent of the electricity in America as the second level of supply, second only to coal. The Environmental Protection Agency continues to raise the standards of emissions, increasing the cost of supplying electricity generated by coal. In addition, easily and economically mined coal sources are diminishing or increasing in other cost factors. Nuclear power generation may be entering a new era. In addition, nuclear power is called the most "eco-efficient" energy source because it ...

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