Jim Hamilton

Jim Hamilton is the Executive Director of The Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative. Jim has over twenty-years of experience managing the entire life-cycle (siting, design, permitting, construction, closure, decommissioning, remediation and redevelopment) of large-scale manufacturing, energy and infrastructure facilities throughout North, Central and South America.

Pickering nuclear station is closing as planned, despite calls for refurbishment

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Pickering nuclear station is closing as planned, despite calls for refurbishment The Ontario government will not reconsider plans to close the Pickering nuclear station and instead stop-gap the consequent electricity shortfall with natural gas-generated power in a move that will hike the province’s greenhouse gas emissions substantially in the coming years.

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Wayne County Supervisors to ask state for continued operation of Ginna Nuclear plant

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Wayne County Supervisors to ask state for continued operation of Ginna Nuclear plant The Wayne County Board of Supervisors plans to ask the state to allow the Ginna Nuclear Power Plant to remain open beyond its scheduled closure in 2029. The Finger Lakes Times reports the board is set to ask the state to include

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Stanford-led research finds small modular reactors will exacerbate challenges of highly radioactive nuclear waste

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Small modular reactors produce high levels of nuclear waste | Stanford News Nuclear reactors generate reliable supplies of electricity with limited greenhouse gas emissions. But a nuclear power plant that generates 1,000 megawatts of electric power also produces radioactive waste that must be isolated from the environment for hundreds of thousands of years. Furthermore, the

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Energy secretary: We must find a solution for nuclear waste

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Energy secretary: We must find a solution for nuclear waste WATERFORD, Conn. (AP) – It is critical to find a solution for storing the nation’s spent nuclear fuel, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Friday during a visit to a nuclear power plant in Connecticut. Granholm was invited to tour Millstone Nuclear Power Station in

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Palisades Nuclear Plant has shut down 10 days early, owners announce

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Palisades Nuclear Plant has shut down 10 days early, owners announce SOUTH HAVEN – Palisades Nuclear Plant ceased operations Friday, May 20, Entergy Corp. announced Friday afternoon. The 800-megawatt power plant in Covert Township had originally been scheduled to shut down May 31, but a company media release said operators “made the conservative decision to

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Holtec Expects to Make Huge Profit off Pilgrim Plant

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Holtec Expects to Make Huge Profit off Pilgrim Plant – The Provincetown Independent PLYMOUTH – When Holtec International took ownership of the shuttered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in 2019, it came with a decommissioning trust fund with more than $1 billion in it. The money, paid by the utility’s customers over the 28 years the

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The dangerous business of dismantling America’s aging nuclear plants

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The dangerous business of dismantling America’s aging nuclear plants FORKED RIVER, N.J. – The new owner took over the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in 2019, promising to dismantle one of the nation’s oldest nuclear plants at minimal cost and in record time. Then came a series of worrisome accidents. One worker was struck by

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Opinion: An open letter regarding the future of Diablo Canyon

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Opinion: An open letter regarding the future of Diablo Canyon | Pacific Coast Business Times By The Diablo Vision Coalition To California Central Coast residents, clean energy champions and innovators, and anyone interested in advancing an abundant, sustainable energy future: Where the Diablo Canyon Power Plant sits on California’s Central Coast, we see a new

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Sen. Markey’s congressional hearing on nuclear decommissioning in Plymouth gets commitment

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Sen. Markey’s congressional hearing on nuclear decommissioning in Plymouth gets commitment PLYMOUTH – State and federal elected officials don’t want to see a million gallons of water from the shuttered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth “dumped,” as they call it, into Cape Cod Bay. The same can be said about rule changes proposed by

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