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As NextEra Energy inches closer to restarting its shuttered nuclear energy plant in Palo, environmental experts, lawyers and advocates urged caution this week, saying a revived plant could pose health risks for Iowans.

Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project said that as discussions about reopening the Duane Arnold nuclear plant have unfolded, information about the impact the facility’s waste could have on human health has been omitted from conversations.

The Radiation and Public Health Project is a nonprofit organization that studies the relationship between low-level nuclear radiation and public health.

If the plant were to restart, Mangano said th

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