Perry, Davis Besse and Beaver Valley Are Goners, That is Four Nuclear Plants

So that is four nuclear plants, plus Pilgrim and Oyster Creek. Many more to come. We are in a phase we never seen before. All these plants have been starved for funding for years. And it is only going to get worst as they head towards shutdown. A risk for a meltdown has drastically increased. And Pilgrim and Oyster Creek are closing in tough shape. Will these bad plants overwhelm the NRC. It wouldn't be the first time where a set of terribly bad operating nuclear plants overwhelm the NRC. They draw a lot of NRC away from the rest. Then A moderately bad plant erupts into a terrible accident. That is the Davis Besse accident. 

And don't forget the NRC is undergoing politically inspired severe restructuring and downsizing. It is secret deregulation and heading into Russian style secrecy.    

First Energy Solution Will Close Its Nuclear Plants, But Is Silent On Bankruptcy Restructuring  

By John Funk, The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- FirstEnergy says it is getting out of the nuclear power business within the next three years. 

The company's power plant subsidiaries FirstEnergy Solutions and the FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co. late Wednesday informed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and regional grid manager PJM Interconnection that it will close its nuclear power plants within three years.

The companies plan to close the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant near Toledo in 2020, and both the Perry nuclear plant in Lake County as well as the two-reactor Beaver Valley nuclear plant near Pittsburgh in 2021.

The companies announced the decision well after the close of business, but made no mention of filing for bankruptcy.