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Among backers of nuclear power development in the U.S., France has long been held out as the model to emulate.  Now, as pressure builds on policy makers in Washington to set a new domestic energy course, the French experience once again is being heralded as proof that nuclear
power is the way to go.

Trouble is, France's nuclear "miracle" is more fantasy than fact.  And facts are what Congress - and the American public - deserve before massive public subsidies are committed for new reactor construction.

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