http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080724/GJNEWS_01/488230042ROCHESTER — Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain believes the country needs to build 100 more nuclear power plants to achieve independence from foreign oil.
He also told 700 supporters at a Town Meeting event Tuesday at the Rochester Opera House that he would be willing to revisit the Seabrook Unit 2 reactor project that Florida Power & Light officials dismantled in 2003.
But officials at FPL Energy, which owns and operates Seabrook Station, have previously said they have no intention of building a second nuclear reactor even though Seabrook is licensed to have two reactors by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. FPL Energy is a subsidiary of FPL Group in Florida.
Alan Griffith, a spokesman for FPL Energy and Seabrook Station, said Wednesday that the company's position has not changed following McCain's remarks.
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