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An aerial view of Salem and Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plants in New Jersey. Julia Robertson/Aero-imaging, Inc./Newscom/File
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An aerial view of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, which sits on the edge of the Pacific Ocean at Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County, California. Mark Ralston/AFP Photo/Newscom/File
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Cooling towers of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant are reflected in the Susquehanna River in Middletown, Pa. The partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979 routed more than 180,000 people living within 50 miles of the plant, a five-day evacuation nightmare that residents are reliving as the nuclear plant crisis unfolds in Japan. Carolyn Kaster/AP/File
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The Callaway Nuclear Plant near Fulton, Missouri. Newscom/File
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Sheriff deputies Joseph Casola (l.) and Ryan Glaze guard the entrance to the Crystal River Energy Complex Nuclear Power Plant in Crystal River, Fla. after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US. Peter Muhly/AFP Photo/Newscom/File
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Fishermen stand beside the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant in north San Diego County, Calif. The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant sits at the edge of the Pacific Ocean on an 84-acre site between San Diego and Orange County and provides much of Southern California its power. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom/File
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Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant stands on the edge of the Hudson River near the Ramapo Fault in Buchanan, N.Y. John Angelillo/UPI/File
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A view of Exelon Byron Nuclear Generating Station in Byron, Ill. Jeff Haynes/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom/File
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The Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor stands next to the Connecticut River in Vernon, Vermont. John Nordell/Staff/File
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A view of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire, on March 21. The plant, more commonly known as Seabrook Station, is located approximately 40 miles north of Boston and 10 miles south of Portsmouth, NH. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom
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A view of Grand Gulf Nuclear Generating Station in Port Gibson, Miss. DanitaDelimont.com/Newscom/File
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An aerial view of the Columbia Generating Station beside the Columbia River in Hanford, Wash. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom/File
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A view of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generation station, located about 50 miles west of Phoenix in Tonopah, Ariz. HO/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom/File
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Southern California Edison, the company that owns California's malfunctioning San Onofre nuclear power plant, says the plant may be operational by the end of the year.
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Michael R. Blood, Associated Press /
July 30, 2012
AP Photo, Lenny Ignelzi, File
The operator of California's troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant estimates that the damaged twin reactors could be running by the end of the year.