If the plant does not run, the increases would be 6.6 percent a year.

That means it will be many weeks or months before the plant runs again.

As a result, it said, the plant could soon run out of room to store its waste.

Today the plant, a 10-minute drive from her house, runs on natural gas instead.

But with over 100 plants running, eventually anything that can fail probably will.

When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.

What will you do either to save money or make the plants run better, now that they are coming under common ownership?

Making the investment only makes sense, though, if the owner believes that the plant will run for more than a few years.

The plant has been running on a four-day week for more than 16 months.

Within a few years, the plant will run out of space to store the radioactive waste.