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Nuclear power has a significant history in Pennsylvania, beginning in 1954 with the establishment of the first commercial, peace-time plant in America, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station. Since the construction of the Shippingport plant, 8 new nuclear plants have been constructed, 5 of which having already been decommissioned.
PPC, now FirstEnergy, is one of the largest electrical distribution companies in Pennsylvania, and is one of many regulated companies subject to Act 129. [8] Home energy efficiency is the main focus of Act 129, but it also has implementation goals related directly to electricity distribution companies (ECDs).
On Dec., 29th 2014, Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Vernon, VT was permanently shut down. In March 2015, a Gallup poll showed that a majority (51%) of Americans supported nuclear power. [66] In May 2015, the NRC approved a construction permission for a third reactor at Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station.
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court will take its first crack at whether a governor can force power plant owners to pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, or whether he first needed ...
Stewart Brand at a 2010 debate, "Does the world need nuclear energy?" [31]At the 1963 ground-breaking for what would become the world's largest nuclear power plant, President John F. Kennedy declared that nuclear power was a "step on the long road to peace," and that by using "science and technology to achieve significant breakthroughs" that we could "conserve the resources" to leave the world ...
In March, a subsidiary of the company bought a nuclear-powered data center in Pennsylvania. And a deal with a nuclear plant on the East Coast to supply power for Amazon Web Services is said to be ...
The Limerick Generating Station is a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania located next to the Schuylkill River in Limerick Township, Montgomery County, northwest of Philadelphia. The facility has two General Electric boiling water reactor (BWR) units, cooled by natural draft cooling towers.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is issuing a construction permit for a new type of nuclear reactor that uses molten salt to cool the reactor core. The NRC is issuing the permit to Kairos ...