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DATE: Tuesday, July 26, 1994                 TAG: 9407260356
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: SURRY                              LENGTH: Short :   23 lines

NUCLEAR PLANT GETS HIGH RATING

   Virginia Power's Surry and North Anna nuclear power plants have made a 
publishing company's Top 10 list of the biggest bargains for producing 
electrical power in 1993.
   The North Anna plant was called the fourth most efficient of the nation's 
71 nuclear plants by the Washington-based Utility Data Institute. The Surry 
plant was ranked No. 10.
   The publisher bases its rankings on the average cost to produce a megawatt 
hour of electricity.
   ``It's part plant design, part plant management and part luck,'' said Chris
Bergesen, vice president of UDI, a subsidiary of McGraw-Hill.