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Lamar Alexander: “Now, it's unlikely--and we can ask the others here when they come--that the new SMRs would benefit from that because…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2011
Now, it's unlikely--and we can ask the others here when they come--that the new SMRs would benefit from that because under the terms of the law they'd have to be under construction by 2014 and in operation by January 1, 2021.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander explains the limitations on subsidies for new small modular reactors.

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