Millstone Nuclear Power Plant Begins Layoffs

From the Hartford Courant:

The Millstone nuclear power plant is telling between 50 and 75 employees this week that they are terminated.

Management at Dominion, which owns the Waterford reactor complex, has not said exactly how many people will be cut. The layoffs were needed because there were not enough volunteers for buyouts.

Ken Holt, spokesman for Dominion, said Dominion has compared Millstone to other nuclear plants and found it had more staff than the industry average. Current staff is 1,285, and the company wants to shrink to between 1,050 to 1,085.

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