"Massachusetts: With Expenses Rising, Pilgrim Nuclear Plant Will Close"

"The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, the only nuclear power plant in Massachusetts, will close by June 2019 because it is becoming too expensive to run, its owner announced Tuesday.

The decision by the New Orleans-based Entergy Corporation comes about a month after federal inspectors downgraded the plant’s safety rating to the lowest level and said they would increase oversight after it shut down during a winter storm. The owners maintained that the plant in Plymouth remained safe, although it needed millions of dollars in upgrades. The 680-megawatt plant, which went online in 1972, was relicensed in 2012 for an additional 20 years. It employs more than 600 people."

The Associated Press had the story October 13, 2015.