NUKE FREE TEXAS

"This is 2018. We shouldn't still be contaminating people with plutonium," said a worker at the Hanford site in eastern Washington... Toshiba - through its US-based wholly-owned subsidiary Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corporation (TANE) - and US utility NRG Energy founded Nuclear Innovation North America (NINA) in 2008 to promote the use of Toshiba's ABWR in North America. A combined construction and operating licence (COL) application for two ABWRs at STP, where NRG Energy already operates two pressurised water reactors, had already been submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 2007. In February 2009, TANE signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with STP Nuclear Operating Company, acting as an agent for NINA, and thereby became the main contractor for STP units 3 and 4. However, in 2011 NRG Energy announced that it would be withdrawing from the project and writing down its USD331 million investment in NINA. Since then, Toshiba has..

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