A single 636-megawatt reactor ran on Barnegat Bay for 49 years, and Holtec now wants four small ones putting 1,360 megawatts onto the grid from the same dirt, with 4,504 spent fuel assemblies still fenced on the property because Washington has never opened anywhere to send them.

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