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Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant Shuts Down
2013-05-08 03:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Kewaunee nuclear power plant in Wisconsin shut down for the last time on Tuesday, but it is preparing to break new ground for the American nuclear industry. It may go to sleep, Snow White-style, for 50 years, to be awakened when its radioactivity has subsided. Or it may be dismantled in the next decade or so. In either case, the responsibility and the expense, probably near $1 billion, will be borne for the first time by a for-profit company, not a regulated utility. The Kewaunee plant, which...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical