Sentences with phrase «drop nuclear power generation»

Even if all reactors scheduled to come online by 2015 make it, the projected closing of 93 nuclear reactors by then will drop nuclear power generation roughly 10 percent below the current level.

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His company owns a dozen coal, gas and nuclear plants in Texas, and generation revenues for that region dropped more than $ 90 million last year, primarily because of lower power prices in the state.

But when the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station closed in January 2012, nuclear's share of in - state power generation immediately dropped to 9.3 pNuclear Generating Station closed in January 2012, nuclear's share of in - state power generation immediately dropped to 9.3 pnuclear's share of in - state power generation immediately dropped to 9.3 percent.

Indeed, if the NRC behaves responsibly and stops rubber - stamping license renewals for aging nuclear power plants, and they are decommissioned as originally planned, it is likely that nuclear's share of US electricity generation will drop, even if a few new plants are eventually built.