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NRDC's clean energy leadership dates back 40 years and it is ridiculous to suggest that there is something corrupt about replacing an aging nuclear power plant with less costly energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Not exact matches

The government's energy review is due to report back this summer, but Tony Blair has already made clear he believes replacing Britain's ageing nuclear power plants is a vital part of the future energy mix, along with renewables and energy efficiency.

BUCHANAN, N.Y. >> The aging Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County will close within about four years under a deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who long has argued it should be shuttered to protect the millions of people living nearby.

The inspector general's office, they assert, has shied away from challenging the NRC at exactly the wrong time, with many of the country's 104 nuclear power plants aging beyond their 40 - year design life and with reactor meltdowns at Fukushima rewriting the definition of a catastrophic accident.

However, low natural gas prices, increasingly affordable renewable technologies and grid improvements, declining demand for electricity, and costly age - and safety - related power plant repairs have led to some nuclear reactors being retiring abruptly, with little or no advance planning.

This is the same line of thinking that left us with hundreds of aging nuclear power plants without the resources for their decommissioning.

The report was drafted by young people aged between 16 and 25 who visited power stations, nuclear plants and projects promoting renewable energy sources to investigate the issues at first hand and met with experts, industry, pressure groups and innovators, to look at how we can keep the lights on in 2050 while reducing carbon emissions.

Much like with the debate over decommissioning the aging Indian Point nuclear power plant, much of the added power that could be created because of the increased pipeline capacity, could just as easily (and probably far more cheaply) be offset with energy efficiency improvements in the region.

Our assumption is that the limited number of nuclear power plants now under construction worldwide will simply offset the closing of aging plants, with no overall growth in capacity by 2020.