Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Education at a press conference held outside the gates of the closed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

San Onofre CLOSED FOR GOOD‏  Calif. utility will close troubled nuclear plant http://bigstory.ap.org/article/calif-utility-says-it-will-retire-nuclear-plant …   Will Vermont Yankee be next?

CLF, NEC and VPIRG filed a brief asking the Vermont Supreme Court to deny Entergy Vermont Yankee motion to set aside PSB rulings going back as far as 2002. Read more.                      5/22/13

A couple pieces of Good News.                 5/9/13

1.Based on the permanent closure of two reactors this year,

Crystal River in FL, and Kewaunee in WI,  the US total number of reactors is 102.

2. UBS Financial analyst Dumoulin Smith stated in an AOL energy article from last week that after the closure of a number of fossil fuel fired reactors in the midwest last year, this year 6 nuclear reactors in the northeast are due to close

Let us hope VY is included in the 6.

The demise of nuclear energy is upon us.
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Shots fired at TVA Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

Plant officials said the incident didn’t threaten the plant’s security.

If this doesn’t concern plant security … what does?