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Energy Net on 05 Oct 09The Lakeshore area has been a longtime friend of the nuclear power industry. We are home to the nuclear plants at Point Beach in the town of Two Creeks and a few miles away near Kewaunee. Advertisement They provide hundreds of good-paying jobs and produce energy in the context of a good safety record. Wisconsin in 1983 banned construction of new nuclear plants, in large part because there is no national or international site to permanently dispose of the waste they would generate. That's still the case 26 years later and it's the reason we remain concerned with proposals to lift the moratorium on nuclear plant construction.
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Energy Net on 05 Oct 09The Lakeshore area has been a longtime friend of the nuclear power industry. We are home to the nuclear plants at Point Beach in the town of Two Creeks and a few miles away near Kewaunee. Advertisement They provide hundreds of good-paying jobs and produce energy in the context of a good safety record. Wisconsin in 1983 banned construction of new nuclear plants, in large part because there is no national or international site to permanently dispose of the waste they would generate. That's still the case 26 years later and it's the reason we remain concerned with proposals to lift the moratorium on nuclear plant construction.