As long as oil prices remain very low, making up for the loss of Shoreham power won't cost much more than operating the nuclear reactor.
The complicated and lengthy fight over the Long Island Lighting Company and its Shoreham nuclear power plant is certainly far from over.
Never mind that the $5.5 billion Shoreham nuclear power plant, the nation's only completed nuclear plant that never operated commercially, is much closer to neighboring Wading River.
It was a bad cause - plowing under the $5 billion Shoreham, L.I., nuclear power station - that brought out Governor Cuomo's mastery of politics.
B3 A fight over the fate of the Long Island Lighting Company and its Shoreham nuclear power plant shows signs of motion.
It would run from North Haven, Conn., across Long Island Sound to the site of the former Shoreham nuclear power plant near Wading River.
In the Town of Brookhaven, property taxes would increase by $131.76 because of the loss of the $5.5 billion Shoreham nuclear power plant from assessment rolls.
The report's findings are likely to create more pressure on the authority to move ahead to acquire Lilco and abandon its $5.2 billion Shoreham nuclear power plant.
A Federal licensing board recommended yesterday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issue the Shoreham nuclear power plant a full operating license.
On an island where the $5 billion Shoreham nuclear power plant was scrapped because of safety concerns, experts were quick to see parallels between the solid-waste industry and the nuclear-power industry.