Entergy Corp said on Friday it has permanently shut a nuclear power station in Michigan despite a Biden administration plan to rescue plants like it because they generate electricity virtually free of carbon emissions.
said on Friday it has permanently shut a nuclear power station in Michigan despite a Biden administration plan to rescue plants like it because they generate electricity virtually free of carbon emissions.
"After careful monitoring, operators made the conservative decision to shut down the plant early due to the performance of a control rod drive seal," Entergy said in a statement about the plant.The plant had been to slated to shut on May 31, but efforts had been underway to save it. The first phase of the Civil Nuclear Credit program was meant to keep Palisades and California's Diablo Canyon plant, owned by PG&E CorpThe plan, which had funding generated by last year's bipartisan infrastructure bill, could help save other nuclear plants instead.
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