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March 28, 2017

High costs to run old reactors speed up plant closings; bad news for small towns

  • Some utilities are helping to ease the sudden loss of jobs and tax revenues, but towns in out of the way places rely heavily on the plants.
    • By JOHN SEEWER
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/John Seewer [enlarge]
    Boats wrapped and stored for winter sit near Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Ohio. FirstEnergy Corp. will decide by next year whether to close or sell plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio, including Davis-Besse, unless the states change regulations to make them more competitive.

    OAK HARBOR, Ohio — Living in the shadows of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant's cooling tower, which soars above Lake Erie in Ohio like an oversized lighthouse, brings with it some give-and-take.


     
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