In blow to Biden climate goals, Entergy shuts nuclear power plant
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Entergy (ETR) closed the 800-Megawatt Palisades plant in
"After careful monitoring, operators made the conservative decision to shut down the plant early due to the performance of a control rod drive seal," Entergy (ETR) said in a statement about the plant.
The plant had been to slated to shut on
White House national climate adviser
The Biden administration last month launched a
The first phase of the Civil Nuclear Credit program was
meant to keep Palisades and
The plan, which had funding generated by last year's bipartisan infrastructure bill, could help save other nuclear plants instead.
With the closure,
The Department of Energy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Backers of the Palisades plant, which employed 600 hundred workers, had hoped another utility would buy it to save it from closing.
"We've not gotten any proposals" to buy Palisades,