Source : Financial Times
Last updated : August 28, 2013 10:34 pm
US nuclear power : meltdown
Falling natural gas prices are spurring a nuclear shutdown
Vermont, idyllic land of farmhouses and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, has claimed America’s latest nuclear power victim. On Tuesday the power producer Entergy said it would shut down its Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, the most recent in a string of such closures.
The historic drop in the price of natural gas is the primary (...)