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American Nuclear Power Was Doomed Even Before Japan

Obama and the GOP keep pushing nuclear power, but for all their money and rhetoric, their proposals were doomed even before Japan. Robert Bryce on how natural gas killed domestic reactors.

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Survivors take shelter at an evacuation center at Watari town in Miyagi prefecture on March 14, 2011. Inset: US President Barack Obama (Photo: Getty Images; AP Photo)

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