nuclear power plants

In fact, nuclear power plants are closing early with about 1/5 of the nation's fleet of nuclear reactors scheduled for early retirement; with six of them closing since ... If your goal is to get to zero carbon emissions, every nuclear power plant retirement is a giant step backwards that alternative energy, or perhaps ...

New Jersey's Assembly and Senate are both poised to vote on controversial bills that seek to subsidize the state's nuclear power plants, modify the renewables portfolio standard, and support a pilot offshore wind farm. Lawmakers on April 12 could pass the package of bills, which includes S-2313, a bill ...

Nearly 3 million Americans live within 10 miles of a nuclear power plant, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. As of last year, 99 commercial nuclear power plants were operating in the United States, the vast majority of which were built in the 1970s and 1980s, according to the Nuclear ...

The think tank Third Way just published an interesting look at the effect of planned and potential nuclear plant closures on carbon emissions in the U.S. power sector. Why it matters: Even if just some of the early retirements come to pass, it will knock the country farther away from cutting greenhouse ...

The direct beneficiaries of the nuclear subsidies are the Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station and the Salem Nuclear Power Plant, two PSEG-owned nuclear power plants located at the same site in Lower Alloways Creek. Salem Nuclear Power Plant is co-owned by Exelon, the same company that owns ...

The bills, which require power companies in New Jersey to generate 50 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and subsidize existing nuclear power plants, mark one of the biggest new policy steps that any state has taken toward cutting greenhouse gases since President Trump was ...

The Welsh plant would have a capacity of 3GW, similar to the 3.2GW of the nuclear power station being built at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Horizon Nuclear Power, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Hitachi, told planning authorities it would submit its planning application for the Wylfa plant by the ...

First Energy Solutions says it's going to shut down its nuclear power plants. And that means ... He was at the central library in Perry, Ohio last week for a regularly-scheduled annual NRC public report on the safety and operating performance of nearby Perry Nuclear Power Plant. After the meeting, Dickson ...

It has nothing to do with the question of what to do with existing nuclear power plants. You do not have to like nuclear power, or ever want to build another nuclear power plant, to believe that existing sources of carbon-free power should be kept running as long as practicably possible. You only have to like ...