The six U.S. nuclear power plants most likely to shut down
http://grist.org/news/the-six-u-s-nuclear-power-plants-most-likely-to-shut-down/
r.e.ginna opened in '84? could've sworn aye was their in the 70s... ahhh, those reely where the daze.
the silver lining would be that a couple of years ago that list was twelve plants long,....
several have come off the list and returned to the viable side of the ledger,...
the others?!?!?! well, they shutdown, they're off-grid,...
not so silver,.... [coffee]
Quote from: SloGlo on Oct 25, 2015, 11:30
r.e.ginna opened in '84? could've sworn aye was their in the 70s... ahhh, those reely where the daze.
I am quite sure I was there in 1981 and it was not their first outage so...
Quote from: GLW on Oct 25, 2015, 03:29
the silver lining would be that a couple of years ago that list was twelve plants long,....
several have come off the list and returned to the viable side of the ledger,...
the others?!?!?! well, they shutdown, they're off-grid,...
not so silver,.... [coffee]
The article is two years old. Doesn't even mention the three plants in IL that are "struggling".
I notice that the article was from November 2013, so the author was right about at least one of the plants (Pilgrim), and they just announced the deal brokered for Ginna. I'm hoping that he's wrong on #4 for at least a couple more years since that's my plant; but we didn't clear the auction for 2018-2019 so the economical challenges remain. We shall see.
As soon as I saw the 'Click to embiggen' note at the bottom under the chart I knew the author was a moron.
Quote from: RFaunt on Oct 26, 2015, 10:12
I notice that the article was from November 2013, so the author was right about at least one of the plants (Pilgrim), and they just announced the deal brokered for Ginna. I'm hoping that he's wrong on #4 for at least a couple more years since that's my plant; but we didn't clear the auction for 2018-2019 so the economical challenges remain. We shall see.
Oops my bad, I should have checked the date. :(