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Powerful incentives

Can an expanded loan guarantee programme dispel US power companies' hesitation about resuming construction of nuclear power plants? Geoff Brumfiel investigates.

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Powerful incentives. Nature 448, 741 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/448741a

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