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WAYNESBORO, Ga. (AP) -- The U.S. nuclear industry has started building its first new plants in decades using prefabricated Lego-like blocks meant to save time and money and revive the once promising energy source.

Cancer rates around the Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant in Lacey Township, and six other facilities nationwide will be studied in a pilot project by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), which will update figures in use by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for 23 years.

In six years, one of your neighbors expects to retire after five decades on the job, but there won't be a party or pocket watch.

Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station is only seven years from closure, and local legislators, residents, and government officials met in Lacey address what the region will do when one of its largest employers closes down for good.

Imagine this scenario. You're going about your business when all of a sudden, the sound of Oyster Creek's alarm starts blaring. Would you know what to do in that situation?

If a nuclear disaster were to strike, are you confident authorities will be able to evacuate the public safely and efficiently?

Media have been allowed into Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant for the first time since the disaster touched off the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.