After all, years of power shortages loom.

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The nuclear power plant's cooling towers still loom over the farms and small towns that line Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River.

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In the real world of Washington, two factors will loom largest in how the government approaches reconstruction: political ideology and, more important, the power of lobbyists.

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