From the New York desk, Michelle Brier reports. They were run by the same company. After years of improved public perception in a region historically uptight about the industry, nuclear energy was again getting a bad name. David Shanzer is a utilities analyst for the investment firm, Jannery Montgomery Scott. Connecticut Yankee was, analysts say, a victim of its operator and own unique financial situation.
Nuclear energy is still expensive.
Figuring in operating, maintenance and fuel costs, oil, gas and coal burning plants on average are cheaper, but that's changing. Again, David Shanzer. But, even they admit that low costs may not completely mitigate the public's renewed uneasiness with atomic neighbors. In New York, I'm Michelle Brier, for Marketplace. A California-based fresh juice company linked to dozens of food poisoning cases in the West has decided to pasteurize its apple juice.