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PARIS/MOSCOW - The $100 billion overseas order book of Russia's nuclear power plant builder Rosatom - bigger than all its Western competitors combined - makes it look like the giant in its field. But if the company - formed in 2007 from the Russian Atomic Energy Ministry and tasked with turning nuclear power into a major export industry - is ever to reach its potential as a global industrial giant, it will have to shed Russia's reputation for using energy policy as a means to political ends.

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