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Duke ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has decided against trying to repair the Crystal River nuclear reactor, which has been offline for two years due to problems with containment concrete discovered during uprate work. Decommissioning begins immediately.
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A plan to create an interim store for used nuclear fuel in Utah is officially dead after Private Fuel Storage decided to give up on building the facility in the face of federal obstruction. The move leaves the USA reliant on temporary storage at power plants for the foreseeable future.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has applied to the US regulator to extend the operating life of its twin-unit Sequoyah nuclear power plant. Ifgranted, the reactors could operate until 2040 and 2041, respectively.
Duke ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has decided against trying to repair the Crystal River nuclear reactor, which has been offline for two years due to problems with containment concrete discovered during uprate work. Decommissioning begins immediately.
The US nuclear regulator has found no environmental issue that should prevent Detroit Edison from building and operating an Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) at its existing Fermi nuclear power plant site in Michigan.
A US government conservation agency has purchased land next to the decommissioned Connecticut Yankee nuclear power plant to expand its nature reserve there.