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“It’s bold for us as a company, but for energy and the industry, it’s a good step.”

David Crane, president and CEO of NRG Energy, on plans to file the first application to build a nuclear reactor in the US since the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 (AP, 25 September)

“It’s really stunning in juxtaposition to what surveys have shown after other disasters. [Typically] people have a lot of trouble the first night and the first month afterward. Then you see a lot of improvement.”

Healthcare policy expert Ronald Kessler of Harvard Medical School, on a study revealing…

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