Powering down: Iowa’s only nuclear plant nears end
PALO – Behind secure doors and housed in concrete and steel, the uranium fuel in Duane Arnold Energy Center’s reactor produces about 600 megawatts of emissions-free power – close to 8 percent of Iowa’s energy generation. But after 45 years of operation, the state’s only nuclear power plant is slated to close.
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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.