70% of our electricity is produced by nuclear power here in northern Illinois--a greater percentage of nuclear power electricity production than anywhere else in the country. The demand for electricity is to grow exponentially in the years and decades ahead making ALL sources of electricity production essential--including nuclear energy which is the source of the majority of our electricity here in Chicago and Illinois. My WGN team and I visited the Byron Nuclear Power Plant---which was absolute

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