Dive Summary:
- Dominion Resources Inc informed U.S. nuclear regulators Monday it will shutter its 566-megawatt Kewaunee nuclear power plant in Wisconsin on May 7.
- The second U.S. reactor closing this year after Duke Energy's Crystal River reactor, Kewaunee's nuclear can't compete against low natural gas prices, Dominion execs said.
- The last batch of reactors to shut down occurred in the late 1990s.
From the article:
"Kewaunee is a pressurized water reactor located 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Green Bay, Wisconsin. The plant began commercial operation in June 1974."
