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Ed Markey: My experience with nuclear power plants is that they age, and what has happened here is that each one of these plants…

On the recordOctober 6, 2015
My experience with nuclear power plants is that they age, and what has happened here is that each one of these plants keeps requesting an extension so that they can continue to operate longer and longer.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the aging of nuclear plants and their extensions for operation.

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