"Aging and Expensive, Reactors Face Mothballs"
October 24, 2012
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The Kewaunee atomic reactor on Wisconsin's Lake Michigan shorelineAtomic reactor shutdowns, and the resultant beginning of decommissioning projects, may grow more commonplace soon. The New York Times has reported on the economics that have not only led to the Kewaunee atomic reactor's (photo, left) announced closure in Wisconsin, but also other pressures and forces on reactors, from Entergy's Indian Point near New York City to Vermont Yankee, Duke's Crystal River in Florida, Exelon's Oyster Creek in New Jersey, and Southern California Edison's San Onofre. The article speaks of "[t]he industry’s renewed glimpse of its mortality" and states "the nuclear industry may be nearing its first round of retirements since the mid-1990s."  Kewaunee's closure will be the first at an American atomic reactor since several (Yankee Rowe, Massachusetts; Zion 1 & 2, Illinois; Big Rock Point, Michigan; Millstone Unit 1, Connecticut) in the mid to late 1990s. 

Article originally appeared on Beyond Nuclear (https://archive.beyondnuclear.org/).
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