Miss. officials mum on possible incentives for nuclear plant

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7/26/2005, 4:30 p.m. CT
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
The Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi economic-development officials won't say what incentives the state might offer to try to lure a new nuclear power plant to the state.

NuStart Energy, a consortium of 11 energy companies, is seeking federal permission to build the nation's first new nuclear power plants in 30 years. The group wants to build two plants and is considering sites in six states: Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, Maryland and New York.

NuStart representatives on Tuesday met privately in Jackson with Mississippi Development Authority officials and a county supervisor from Claiborne County, home of Mississippi's only nuclear power plant.

The site NuStart is considering is next to the Grand Gulf plant, in a rural area near the Mississippi River between Vicksburg and Natchez. The site is about 60 miles southwest of Jackson. <snip>

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