{"id":115,"date":"2013-02-13T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T16:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/as-went-maine-yankee-so-goes-san-onofre-another-reactor-will-close.html"},"modified":"2013-02-13T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T16:11:07","slug":"as-went-maine-yankee-so-goes-san-onofre-another-reactor-will-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/as-went-maine-yankee-so-goes-san-onofre-another-reactor-will-close.html","title":{"rendered":"As went Maine Yankee, so goes San Onofre: another reactor will close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/01\/shutdown-at-san-onofre-permanent-this-time.html\">\nSan Onofre 4 will stay down<\/a>,\nif opponents can stop the hidden experiment shell game.\nMaine Yankee was down for about a year, and never started up again.<\/p>\n<p>\nFront page of the Bangor Daily News 28 May 1997,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=2457&amp;dat=19970528&amp;id=D65JAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=mA4NAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=1433,3334840\">\nMaine Yankee plant may be closed down: Owners weigh repair costs, deregulation<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/8471184908\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Page 1A Bangor Daily News 28 May 1997\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8510\/8471184908_8ca36155e3_z.jpg\" alt=\"Page 1A Bangor Daily News 28 May 1997\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nMaine Yankee President Mike Sellman said that spending\nwill be reduced by about 20 percent, or $41 million, from\nJune through December.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&ldquo;I think every plant that I&#8217;m aware of that has made the decision\nto essentially curtail start-up activities has then gone ahead\nshut down permanently,\u201d said Sellman.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMaine Yankee has been off line since Dec. 6, 1966.\nSeveral repair and improvement projects had been planned so the plant&#8217;s\noperators could seek Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval to\nrestart and return the plant to service.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSee also <a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/it-has-to-close-because-of-the-pocketbook-kyle-jones-on-maine-yankee-nuclear-power-plant.html\">\n\u201cIt has to close because of the pocketbook.\u201d \u2014Kyle Jones on Maine Yankee nuclear power plant<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Onofre 4 will stay down, if opponents can stop the hidden experiment shell game. 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