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Nevada pushes to end Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository once and for all
Radioactive fuel shipments planned through New Mexico counties
Radioactive fuel shipments planned through New Mexico counties CLOVIS – Getting spent fuel from nuclear power plants to a proposed interim storage facility in Lea County would require routing the waste by rail through Clovis. Holtec International, a firm that specializes in spent fuel storage and nuclear power plant site decommissioning, is seeking a license
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Meeting to discuss Palisades decommission plan set for Thursday in South Haven
Meeting to discuss Palisades decommission plan set for Thursday in South Haven COVERT TWP. – Despite a pending application for a federal grant to reopen the plant, a public meeting on the decommissioning plan for Palisades Nuclear Plant will be held this week.
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Pickering nuclear station is closing as planned, despite calls for refurbishment
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
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
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
Hinkley Point B owner says it will not extend life of nuclear plant
Hinkley Point B owner says it will not extend life of nuclear plant The owner of one of the UK’s six nuclear power plants has said it will not extend its life beyond a planned shutdown in summer, despite officials raising concerns over the danger of blackouts in the months that follow.
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Energy secretary: We must find a solution for nuclear waste
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
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
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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