The board of directors of the Yankee Rowe nuclear power station voted unanimously Wednesday to permanently shut down the nation's oldest operating nuclear plant.
William McGee, a spokesman for the plant, said the decision came during a special meeting at the plant Wednesday morning."It's not a safety decision, it's an economic decision," he said.
Officials at Yankee Atomic Electric Company, owners of the 185-megawatt plant, voluntarily shut the plant down last October in response to Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff concern over the analysis used to determine the condition of the reactor vessel.
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McGee said Yankee Atomic officials "are still convinced that we could have proven our case on safety issues."