U.S. Government Agency Faulted in Nuclear Abandonment
October 28, 2010 at 02:30 AM EDT
Image via Wikipedia If you are heading north on the Chesapeake Bay, just above where the Patuxent River enters it, and you will see the Cove Point liquefied natural gas terminal and gas processing plant. Journey on, about three miles, and you will see a superbly landscaped industrial installation that, unlike the gas terminal, blends into the cliffs of Maryland. This is the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, which has been making electricity quietly, efficiently and abundantly since 1975. By contrast, the Cove Point terminal and gas plant has been a symbol of the vagaries of the gas market. Much of the… . . . → Full Story: U.S. Government Agency Faulted in Nuclear Abandonment