16 March 2010-- The Illinois State Senate March 15 voted to lift a 23-year-old ban on the construction of new nuclear plants in the state.
The legislation passed the Senate 40-1 and will now move on to the House. If it passes, Illinois will then be eligible for federal dollars for new nuclear plants.
The moratorium was instituted in 1987, a year after the disaster at Chernobyl in the then-Soviet Ukraine.
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