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Financial Woes Spur Plans To Close Pilgrim Nuclear Plant

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June 2019 is the deadline that the owner of the Pilgrim nuclear plant in Plymouth has set to shut down. The company says it is losing money and hopes it can close the state's only nuclear plant even sooner.

WBUR's Bruce Gellerman reports on the economic realities the company faced operating the state's last commercial reactor.

This segment aired on October 14, 2015.

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