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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer pledged the state's support for Holtec International's application for a federal grant to save the Palisades nuclear power plant which closed in May.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 13 September 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Michigan-governor-calls-for-nuclear-plant-to-reope
All licences and assets of unit 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania will be transferred to a subsidiary of EnergySolutions under an agreement signed yesterday by US utility FirstEnergy and EnergySolutions. The reactor, which suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 and never reopened, will then be decommissioned.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 17 October 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EnergySolutions-takes-on-TMI-2-for-decommissioning
US power company Entergy said on 8 November, it had reached an agreement with dismantling and remediation firm NorthStar Group Services to sell the closed Vermont Yankee NPP and transfer the plant's licences to subsidiaries of NorthStar. Vermont Yankee is a single-unit 604MWe boiling water reactor which was shut down in December 2014 for economic reasons, although safety regulators had granted a licence for the unit to operate until 2032.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 15 November 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-entergy-sells-vermont-yankee-npp-to-northstar-5669453
Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee has submitted its site assessment study for the decommissioning of the nuclear facility to the state of Vermont's Public Service Department, Agency of Natural Resources, Department of Health and Public Service Board.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 20 October 2014
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsvermont-yankee-decom-plan-published-4410473