It may, in fact, even allow the industry to move beyond the creaking technology of the past few decades, selling state of the art reactors much sooner than it might have otherwise.

事实上，这可能甚至会促使该行业彻底抛弃过去数十年勉强运行的技术，提前推出最先进的核反应堆。

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The more we desire this top state the sooner it comes.

我们越是渴望这种最高境界，就会越快达到。

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The Great Plains state of Oklahoma is called the Sooner State.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Their crime: trying to curb the spending excesses of Sooner State politicians.

FORBES: Has North Korea Annexed Oklahoma?

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has told her legislature that the Sooner State will face high economic hurdles in the future if it is an income-tax sandwich between Texas and Kansas.

WSJ: Laffer and Moore: The Red-State Path to Prosperity

What will be interesting to see now is whether Perlmutter's and colleagues' Nobel triumph provides the impetus to find the money to build WFirst sooner (one should state that Perlmutter's colleagues included many collaborators, including Europeans).

BBC: Dark discussion ahead for Europe and US