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[ShadowSwordmaster]

The company that owns the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, site of the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history, announced that it plans to shutter the facility in 2019 unless the state of Pennsylvania steps in to keep it open.

The plant near Harrisburg, Pa., hasn't been profitable for the past five years, according to owner Exelon Corp. The company announced last week that it failed to auction off future energy production from Three Mile Island for the third year in a row.

More in the link.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/30/530708793/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-to-shut-down-in-2019?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=environment

 

[Angry Grimace]

Unfortunately, this is becoming too routine - nuclear power just isn't profitable enough to run in a lot of places.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

Unfortunately, this is becoming too routine - nuclear power just isn't profitable enough to run in a lot of places.

I highly doubt nuclear will make a comeback.

 

[Angry Grimace]

I highly doubt nuclear will make a comeback.

The problem is that the space is just dead - you can't put a housing community on top of an old plant, and even though they're usually quite far out from populated areas, they just sit there unused.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

The problem is that the space is just dead - you can't put a housing community on top of an old plant, and even though they're usually quite far out from populated areas, they just sit there unused.

True.

 

[Elfforkusu]

Unfortunately, this is becoming too routine - nuclear power just isn't profitable enough to run in a lot of places.

This is true, but it's not like free market conditions have made it this way.

Fission is dangerous, and the way we responded to that danger is by making it as expensive as shit.

Seems relevant, given recent news, that nuclear remains the only carbon neutral way to generate base load! (admittedly this is less important now with high-variance renewables and cheap methane)

 

[StopMakingSense]

"Worst nuclear accident in US history"

Pfft. Worst one people were told about more like.