My op-ed in the VDT today; I’ve added links, plus some more after the op-ed.
Finally! Kewaunee, Calvert Cliffs, and now Crystal River
permanently closing say it’s time for Georgia to stop wasting money
on Southern Company’s already over-budget and increasingly-late
nukes and get on with solar power and wind off the coast: for
jobs, for energy independence, and for clean air and plenty of
clean water.
- February 2013:
Duke Energy is closing the Crystal River nuclear
reactor
(Tampa Bay Times, 6 Feb 2013),
160 miles south of us, because
nobody wants to pay to fix it:
between “$1.5 billion and $3.4 billion,
plus what it costs to buy power to replace
what Crystal River would have produced while it is
being repaired”
[Charlotte Business Journal, 11 Jan 2013].- November 2012:
NRC terminated Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs 3
(NRC 1 Nov 2012)
after
Constellation Energy dropped out because the cost “is too high
and creates too much risk for Constellation”
[Bloomberg 10 Oct 2010].
