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Uranium Plant in NM Gets the Go Ahead

By Marco Grajeda

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Las Cruces, NM – Officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission presented Louisiana Energy Services with a constructing and operating license Wednesday, for a uranium enrichment plant in Southern New Mexico. As KRWG's Marco Grjaeda reports, New Mexico's congressional delegates are ecstatic with the news, but a nuclear watchdog group says they're not getting the whole truth.