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Closing Hanford Nuclear Plan would save money

Big Bucks Saved If Aging Hanford Nuclear Plant Closes  TriplePundit By Bill DiBenedetto | December 16th, 2013 Ratepayers in Washington State could save a cool $1.7 billion over 17 years if the Columbia Generating Station (CGS) nuclear power plant at Hanford is closed.

A 212-page economic analysis released last week by McCullough Research of Portland, OR notes that the CGS on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is the only nuclear facility that was actually completed out of the five plants begun there during the long and tangled history of Hanford. In addition, it contains a General Electric boiling water reactor that’s similar to those that were destroyed during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan….http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/12/big-bucks-saved-aging-hanford-nuclear-plant-closes/

December 17, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA