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Somewhere in upstate New York, a community is about to get a big new factory — clean, quiet and employing hundreds of professionals year round — and dedicated to producing something that everyone needs: reliable electricity.

It might not be the only winner. By early December, we’ll know if one or two additional communities are in line for the same opportunity.

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The New York Power Authority is seeking proposals and prospective host communities for 1,000 megawatts of new nuclear generation capacity. That could come from a single large reactor the likes of the Westinghouse AP1000, a modernized version of the Ginna reactor that has been running steadily for 55 years just east of Rochester. Or it could come from stacking together small modular reactors like GE Vernova Hitachi’s BWRX-300, which uses........

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