Vistra moves to extend operation at Comanche Peak Vistra Corporation announced yesterday that it is seeking 20-year life extensions for its Comanche Peak reactors and has submitted an application for license renewals to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Operated by Vistra subsidiary Luminant and located in Glen Rose, Texas, Comanche Peak is home to two Westinghouse-supplied […]
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Fresh off Palisades closure, Michigan will study state’s nuclear prospects | Great Lakes Now By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; and Michigan Radio, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; who work together to bring audiences news and information about the
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A reporter tours Vermont Yankee & witnesses the dismantling of a nuclear power plant The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon once employed more than 600 people, and at the height of its operation, supplied about a third of the state’s electricity. But the plant shut down in 2014, and this week, the final
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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 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 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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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 – 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 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 | 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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