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Recognizes and commends Entergy's Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Port Gibson, Mississippi, for receiving a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission operating license extension through 2044, adding two decades of operation

Grand Gulf is the largest single-unit nuclear power plant in the country and fifth largest in the world, generating nearly 20% of Mississippi's electricity with no greenhouse gas emissions

The facility employs over 700 workers with an annual payroll of $73 million and pays more than $29.5 million in state and local taxes

The plant prevents annual release of 11,038 tons of sulfur dioxide, 8,105 tons of nitrogen oxide, and 7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by operating emission-free

Fuel costs of approximately one-half cent per kilowatt-hour make it among the nation's lowest-cost energy sources