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Article: With the Calvert Cliffs Plant, It's the Customers Who Bear the Burden
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- The Washington Post
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- April 19, 1990
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Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.'s generating plant at Calvert
Cliffs stands idle these days-mute but powerful testimony to just how
costly and uncertain the operation of a nuclear power plant can be,
even in the absence of a disaster.
In a way, the shutdown at Calvert Cliffs, for almost a year now,
has been a disaster. The cost of having the plant sit idle has been
estimated at $300,000 a day for each of the two reactors that have
been out of service since last May.
The ultimate cost, due to equipment failures and to what the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission bluntly described as a "decline in
performance" by BG&E personnel, is yet to be determined. It's
obvious, nonetheless, that the price ...