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DATE: FRIDAY, July 20, 1990                   TAG: 9007200632
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/2   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: SEABROOK, N.H.                                LENGTH: Short

SEABROOK N-PLANT REACHES FULL POWER

The Seabrook nuclear plant, focus of debate over atomic energy, has reached full power for the first time.

The $6.6 billion reactor - among the nation's most expensive - went to full throttle at 9:52 p.m. Thursday, plant spokesman Ron Sher said. The plant generated 1,150 megawatts, electricity for 1 million New England homes.

It's the most important milestone yet for the decade-late project and another setback for anti-nuclear activists whose mass civil disobedience demonstrations had made Seabrook a symbol of their movement.

- Associated Press 


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