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Spencer Cox: “We built about 130 nuclear facilities in a very short amount…”

Featuring: Spencer Cox, Republican | Governor of Utah

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Spencer Cox on political tension, civility and America's divides

Published | Video Starts at 23:23

We built it better than anywhere else in the world. We were the leaders in this technology, clean technology, cheap technology. And then we stopped doing it. Basically when I was born, We built about 130 nuclear facilities in a very short amount of time. About a 12 year project. And in 1975, 50 years ago, for lots of different reasons, some of them. Not having to do with your birth. I hope my birth had nothing to do with this. (23:23–23:30)

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Asserts that historically, the U.S. built 130 nuclear facilities in 12 years.

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