"'The people who are paying for this plant,'" he says, 'should want it closed.'"
Here is McCullough's 2013 "Economic Analysis of the Columbia Generating Station"
In addition to the Oregon and Washington chapters of Physicians for Social Responsibility, several other groups were also involved in wanting to close Columbia Generating Station now: local chapters of the Sierra Club, Heart of America Northwest, Columbia Riverkeeper, Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Ground Zero Community, Oregon Women's Action for New Directions, the Alliance for Democracy, and No Nukes Northwest."
These groups were concerned not only about the expense, but also about radioactive wastes and their health risk.
"McCullough also found that it appears to be the most costly nuclear plant of its kind to run in the U.S. He and his team of six analysts crunched all of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission filings for 2006 through 2012 for 27 operating nuclear plants built and designed on the same basis as the Columbia Generating Station".
On April 26, 2016, a story about a second anonymous letter [first letter not found on internet as of October 25, 2017] that was sent to Entergy Northwest was published in the Tri-City Herald. "The letter said that as of December, the plant ranked 88 out of 99 plants. Radiation exposure was the third worst among boiling water reactors and equipment reliability put it at 97 out of 99 plants."
But the latest letter alleges that Energy Northwest executives were releasing information that was not just confusing, but that they knew was wrong.
They included an email sent Aug. 18 to a top executive of Energy Northwest's nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, that said the plant had fallen into the worst performing 25 percent of plants nationwide. The ranking was prepared by the nonprofit industry group, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, or INPO.
But the executive board was told in September that the Columbia Generating Station was in the third quartile ranking rather than the fourth quartile, the newest letter said. Typed information for a report to the executive board in October continued to state that the plant was in the third quartile, the letter said.
It was not until December that information was provided to the executive board that the nuclear power plant near Richland had fallen into the fourth quartile, the letter said. It based its information on a search of Energy Northwest document and data systems.
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