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- Millstone gets temperature increase OK after 2012 shutdown (4/21/14)
The Millstone Nuclear Power Station has been granted a temperature increase for the seawater used to cool Unit 2. That water can now be as warm as 80 degrees, five degrees higher than it has been.
- Guilty conviction for Pilgrim protesters won’t quiet questions about plant’s future (3/23/14)
The Cape Downwinders trial may be over, but the stressful relationship between the Pilgrim nuclear reactor’s owner and its critics on Cape Cod won’t be healed anytime soon.
- Town of closing Vermont nuclear plant signs agreement (1/7/14)
VERNON — The select board in the Vermont town of Vernon has signed a contract with the owner of the closing Vermont Yankee nuclear plant that will stabilize the town’s tax base through March 2015.
- Ratepayers to stop paying for $28B nuke waste storage (11/19/13)
Connecticut ratepayers will no longer have to foot the bill to store nuclear waste in Haddam and Waterford, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday.
- Feds to reimburse Maine Yankee $35.7 million for spent fuel storage (11/15/13)
WISCASSET — In an ongoing legal dispute, a federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. government to pay Maine Yankee Atomic Power Co. $35.7 million for failing to remove 550 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel that has been sitting in Wiscasset since the nuclear plant stopped generating power in 1996.
- Vermont Yankee discharge permit could require closed-cycle cooling (4/10/14
- Pilgrim’s owner pushes for market changes to help keep the nuclear plant open (3/13/14)
A number of Cape Cod protesters trekked to the State House on Monday, calling for the closure of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant. But it’s more likely that the reactor in Plymouth will be done in by market forces — not activism.
- State of Vermont, Entergy in talks on decommissioning (11/22/13)
- CT Yankee receives another $126M for nuclear waste (11/15/13)
Decommissioned Haddam nuclear plant Connecticut Yankee received another $126 million in a dispute with the U.S. Department of Energy over the continued storage of nuclear waste in Connecticut, the plant's owner announced Friday.
- Study says Seabrook Power Plant a boon for economy (11/7/13)
SEABROOK — The Seabrook Power Plant stimulated $535 million of economic growth locally and $1.4 billion nationally in 2011, according to a new report, which says the station supports 650 direct jobs and 1,980 additional jobs indirectly by goods and services required by operations and employee needs.