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Shaking Nukes 

A year after an earthquake shut down reactors in North Anna, the promise of nuclear power grows more unstable.

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On a sleepy, summer afternoon, Dominion Virginia Power operators watched dozens of brightly lighted boxes strung across several walls in the control rooms for two nuclear reactors in Louisa County, about 50 miles northwest of Richmond. Suddenly, at 1:51 p.m., delicate…

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