NUCLEAR PLANT BEING REBUILT.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: BEN DOBBIN Associated Press

ONTARIO -- The nation's largest mobile crane gently lifted a 63-foot-long steam generator through a hole in the dome of an aging nuclear power plant on Thursday in a first-of-its-kind refitting operation.

The Robert E. Ginna atomic power station, America's sixth oldest, is having its two generators replaced in a $115 million project to keep it operating for at least 13 more years. The $80 million plant opened in 1970.

It is the first time in the history of the nuclear power industry that a steam generator has been hoisted through the top of a working power plant, said operator Rochester Gas & Electric.

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