The next story is new at 11 --
and will have a major impact on
how many of us get our
electricty.First Energy today
announced it'sclosing all of
it's nuclear power plants.
First Energy operates two plants
in Ohio -- Davis Besse near
Port Clinton and Perry east of
Cleveland -- as well as the
Beaver Valley Power Station in
Shippingport, in
Beaver County Pennsylvnia.It
will take up to 3 years to
deactivate the plants
and they will continue normal
operations until then.About 23
hundred workers
could lose their jobs.
Don Moul...the President of
First Energy Solutionsand chief
nuclear officer
says quote: " We are ready to
roll up our sleeves and work
with policy makers to find
solutions that will make it
feasible to continue to operate
these plants in the
future" First Energy says the
plants are no longer
profiable because of the low
prices of natural gas.
This is a major story -- and
we're just learning about
it.We'll have a lot more over
the next
several days.
