How the nuclear plant no one knows about is wasting ratepayer money.

[kristopher]

From the Williamette Week News

Costly To The Core
How the nuclear plant no one knows about is wasting your money.


IMAGE: Energy Northwest


.....McCullough was one of the first to figure out Enron Corp. was behind the power shortages and blackouts that darkened California in 2000 and 2001. In congressional testimony in 2002, McCullough revealed exactly how the Texas energy giant crippled the economies of Western states by manipulating electricity markets. His work led to billion-dollar settlements and criminal convictions.

.....He’s spent the past nine months examining the economics of the region’s only nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, which sits on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington.

.....But his report on the Columbia Generating Station leads to an unmistakable conclusion: It should be shut down.

Not for safety reasons, but because it has become the most expensive nuclear plant of its kind in the United States to run, and is a waste of money that costs ratepayers as much as an extra $50 per year.

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http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-21636-costly_to_the_core.html