(Yahoo Finance) – THREE MILE ISLAND, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Giant cooling towers at Constellation Energy’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania have sat dormant for so long that grass has sprung up in the towers’ hollowed-out bases and wildlife roam inside. Armed guard stations at an entrance to the shut concrete facility, surrounded by barbed wire, sit empty. The plant,
Nasdaq California’s utilities regulator on Thursday granted a five-year extension to operate Pacific Gas and Electric’s PCG.N Diablo Canyon power plant, the state’s only nuclear facility, to avoid electricity shortages during extreme weather events. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved extended operations at the 2,240-megawatts Diablo Canyon plant’s two reactor units until 2029 and 2030, from 2024 and 2025, respectively. PG&E
NPR Citing searing summer temperatures and expected energy shortages, California lawmakers approved legislation aimed at extending the life of the state’s last-operating nuclear power plant. The Diablo Canyon plant – the state’s largest single source of electricity – had been slated to shutter by 2025. The last-minute proposal passed by the state legislature early Thursday could keep it open five years longer,
US News KYIV -Ukraine’s Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was completely disconnected from the Ukrainian grid for the first time ever on Thursday after nearby fires interfered with power lines, state nuclear company Energoatom said. It said that fires broke out in the ash pits of a coal power station near the Zaporizhzhia reactor complex – Europe’s largest nuclear
Source: Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON – Getting the power grid to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 will be far less costly if nuclear power, along with wind and solar energy, can be expanded, according to scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. John Reilly, co-director of MIT’s Joint Program on Global Change, and other scientists warn the cost of powering the
Bechtel Completes Major Milestone at the Only Nuclear Plant Under Construction in U.S.
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