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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0960\">960<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":364203,"section_number":"45.2-1706.1","catch_line":" Commonwealth Clean Energy Policy","order_by":null,"url":"\/45.2-1706.1\/"}],"permalink":{"id":1451943,"object_type":"law","relational_id":364207,"identifier":"45.2-1709","token":"45.2\/V\/17\/3\/45.2-1709","url":"\/45.2-1709\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/45.2-1709\/","token":"45.2\/V\/17\/3\/45.2-1709","dublin_core":{"Title":" Nuclear energy; considered a clean energy source","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 45.2-1709","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>For the purposes of the Commonwealth Clean Energy Policy as set out in \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\" Commonwealth Clean Energy Policy\" href=\"\/45.2-1706.1\/\">45.2-1706.1<\/a>, in any clean energy initiative or carbon-free energy initiative undertaken, overseen, regulated, or permitted by the <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span>, nuclear energy shall be considered to be a clean energy source.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\n NUCLEAR ENERGY; CONSIDERED A CLEAN ENERGY SOURCE (\u00a7 45.2-1709)\n\nFor the purposes of the Commonwealth Clean Energy Policy as set out in \u00a7\n45.2-1706.1, in any clean energy initiative or carbon-free energy initiative\nundertaken, overseen, regulated, or permitted by the Department, nuclear energy\nshall be considered to be a clean energy source.\n\nHISTORY: 2020, c. 960, \u00a7 67-104; 2021, Sp. 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