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The company has been shutting down and selling off its fleet of nuclear plants for several years, and the sale of Palisades completes the company's exit of the nuclear merchant power business.
The 2004 novel Cloud Atlas (and its 2012 film adaptation) has a section in which a female journalist is nearly murdered via car accident to prevent her from publishing a report on a conspiracy to cause a nuclear power plant catastrophe. Silkwood's death is mentioned in the Netflix TV documentary mini series Meltdown: Three Mile Island (2022).
The Palisades Nuclear Generating Station is a moth-balled nuclear power plant located on Lake Michigan, in Van Buren County's Covert Township, Michigan, on a 432-acre (175 ha) site 5 miles (8.0 km) south of South Haven, Michigan, USA.
On December 12, 2005, the plant was put up for auction and the sale to Entergy Corporation was completed in 2007. Palisades is a PWR licensed through 2031. The plant is now operated by Entergy. Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant (sold in 2007) Point Beach is located in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. The plant was owned by We Energies, a unit of Wisconsin ...
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The Windscale fire resulted when uranium metal fuel ignited inside plutonium production piles; surrounding dairy farms were contaminated. [33] [34] The severity of the incident was covered up at the time by the UK government, as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan feared that it would harm British nuclear relations with America, and so original reports on the disaster and its health impacts were ...
The nuclear plant can generate enough energy to power 800,000 homes without releasing any greenhouse gases. Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan to reopen with $1.52 billion loan from federal ...