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.

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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.

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

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"I hope that we resolve this issue sooner rather than later because the state of Illinois has some tremendous financial problems to deal with, which in my view is where we should be concentrating our focus and our time, " he said.

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