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Utilities nationwide could share the financial pain of the idled Crystal River nuclear plant

By Ivan Penn, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Sunday, December 30, 2012

The crippled Crystal River nuclear plant is now America's headache.

The bill to fix it and pay for replacement power may top $5 billion. The problem?

The company that insures all 104 U.S. nuclear power plants has just $3.6 billion on hand to pay for claims.

Broken nuclear plants in California, Texas and Michigan will vie for some of that money. But Crystal River alone represents such a financial threat that the insurance company, Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd., may demand that its member utilities pony up more money.

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THE NUCLEAR NEWSREEL

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Yet another Japanese reactor site found to be sitting on top of an active fault line.

Despite "fiscal cliff," deficit, Congress set to give $150 million of your money to failing uranium enrichment company USEC.

Electricite de France to issue cost-cutting plan. We suggest it start by leaving the U.S.

World nuclear generation down 5% since 2006, likely to fall further.

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Nation's Nuclear Plants Are Nuked. Small reactors can't compete. Bad news for SMRs, good news for U.S.

Solar/wind outpacing state renewable energy standard laws; yet right-wing wants to gut them. They must be expanded instead.

Backup power problems put two Swedish reactors on ice–and cast an unpleasant light on age.

NY Times interviews new Sen. Energy Comm. Ron Wyden (D-OR); new radwaste legislation likely. #nofukushimafreeways

NRC says Mitsubishi is botching San Onofre steam generator tests.

A year after cold shutdown at Fukushima declared, decommissioning process still termed "volatile."

Another one bites the dust: Spain's oldest reactor shuts down permanently.

Nuclear industry chief is sad that your tax dollars aren't being given to wealthy utilities fast enough.