Lacey board postpones Oyster Creek hearing Above: The USA TODAY Network investigates the impacts of closing nuclear power plants. LACEY – Faced with a crowd too large to fit within the municipal building and still comply with state orders on indoor gatherings, the Planning Board postponed a hearing on Monday about nuclear waste storage at […]
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Three Mile Island decommissioning fight nears end amid lack of local input State regulators are negotiating a settlement with the owners of Three Mile Island’s Unit 2, the storied nuclear reactor that partially melted down in 1979, amid objections over the proposed sale to a third party that would take over its decommissioning.
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Exelon’s Crane says decision on nuke closures looming “We will not run plants and lose free cash flow or earnings on assets that are not supporting themselves,” Crane said. “It’s reality,” he added. “We’ve shut two units down in recent years if we could not see a path to sustainability of those assets in the
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Coastal Commission Paves Way for Nuclear Waste Storage at San Onofre | San Clemente Times Unanimous vote approves new permit that would allow 20-year storage at SONGS By Jake Howard We’re entering a new phase in the saga of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). Last week, in a unanimous vote of 10-0, the
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Repeal effort announced for House Bill 6, Davis-Besse and Perry nuclear ‘bailout bill’ OAK HARBOR, Ohio – Roughly 24 hours after Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four others were arrested and charged with masterminding a $61 million …
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‘The worst-case scenario’: Regulators, watchdogs fear plan to dismantle damaged TMI nuclear reactor It’s been more than 41 years, but Stephen Mohr still remembers how he knew something went wrong at the nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island. “I knew something happened because I went out to get the newspaper and I could smell
France shuts down oldest nuclear plant | DW | 29.06.2020 France’s state-owned power company EDF said on Monday that it had shut down the country’s oldest nuclear plant located in Fessenheim, across the border from Germany. The procedure effectively shuttered the second and last reactor in operation at the plant. The first reactor went offline
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Federal action vital to get nuclear waste off San Onofre’s beach, report says San Onofre’s dry storage systems for radioactive waste – derisively dubbed by critics as the “nuclear dump by the sea” – are so close to the ocean and groundwater table that they could suffer structural degradation over time, a new report says.
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