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With nuke near death, consumers staring at $3B tab
New York City :: NY :: USA | 18 days ago
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If utility executives pull the plug permanently on the San Onofre nuclear plant, the list of losers is long: consumers face nearly $3 billion in costs, the risk of blackouts will rise, and air quality will suffer. Yet Southern California Edison, the
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Fla. considers changes in nuclear utility rates
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | 1 month ago
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Fla. (AP) Florida's large utility companies could be forced to change how much they charge customers for future nuclear power plants. A legislative push to tinker with a controversial seven-year-old law is gaining momentum in the halls of the state
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Regulators delay decision on restarting San Onofre reactor
Orange :: NH :: USA | 2 months ago
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Federal regulators have pushed back their estimate of when they are likely to decide whether one of the reactors at the San Onofre nuclear plant can be restarted. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's website now indicates that the decision could come
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NRC orders nuclear sites to upgrade vents
Tōkyō :: Japan | 2 months ago
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is ordering U.S. nuclear power plants to improve ventilation systems at 31 reactors with designs similar to those that melted down two years ago in Japan. The order requires U.S. operators to upgrade vents to ensure
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Are all the US nuclear reactors safe?
The top U.S. nuclear regulator, NRC says about the United States Nuclear Power plants, "The performance is quite good." according to Allsion McFarland as she told The Associated Press in an interview. McFarland says that the United
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FPL rates to drop, Progress Energy rates rise for future nuclear facilities
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | 6 months ago
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Florida's two largest electric utilities won state approval Monday to charge customers $294 million in costs for future nuclear facilities in 2013, despite objections from consumer advocates. The five-member Public Service Commission unanimously
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Motion to have San Onofre hearing denied
Rockville :: MD :: USA | 6 months ago
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Environmentalists who tried to get the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue a stay to prevent a restart of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station said Thursday their motion was denied. However, the Friends of the Earth's request for a stay, and
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Shuttered San Onofre plant costs $300M
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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Costs associated with the long-term shuttering of the troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in the North County top out at a more than $300 million Friday, according to the plant's operator. Inspection and repair costs since the plant's two
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Cancer risks studied near 7 US nuclear sites
Hartford :: CT :: USA | 7 months ago
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Conn. (AP) Federal regulators say a pilot study of cancer risks posed to residents near seven nuclear power sites in the United States will update 22-year-old data, but an industry group predicts the study won't come up with anything new. The Nuclear
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San Onofre erodes nuclear industry's performance
Omaha :: NE :: USA | 8 months ago
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A prolonged outage at the San Onofre nuclear plant has helped erode one basic measure of performance for the nation's nuclear energy sector, members of an industry policy organization in Washington said Monday. Capacity factors -- the ratio of actual
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