Aging and Expensive, Reactors Face Mothballs
THE conventional wisdom about nuclear reactors is that they are expensive to build but cheap to run.

But electricity on the wholesale market is so inexpensive, its price depressed by cheap natural gas, that some reactors may not have enough revenue to justify needed capital expenditures. Experts say that as a result, the nuclear industry may be nearing its first round of retirements since the mid-1990s.
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