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Nuclear Outage Duration and Efficiency

In this article in Power Engineering, ScottMadden contributes to the discussion of continued decline in nuclear plant outage durations.

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Author: Teresa Hansen, Power Engineering

Additional Contributing Author: Chris Vlahoplus

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