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Carbon Caps May Give Nuclear Energy a Lift
?Carbon limits could usher in a period of 'supernormal profits? for nuclear operators in markets where rates are deregulated and have more ability to rise, says Hugh Wynne, utilities analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. But he warns that profits, if perceived as excessive, run the risk of inciting a public backlash, perhaps including calls for a windfall-profits tax.?
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