Adjacent property purchased by Nuclear Company — April fools joke
The Sedona Redrock News reported on April 1, 2016 that a nuclear power plant may well be in the works on the land adjacent the Yavapai Community College Sedona Center. It was an April fools joke. But some folks probably took it pretty seriously.
The paper wrote that in January, the property adjacent the College’s Sedona Center was sold to a private firm, Burns Holdings LLC, which has owned and operated a small nuclear power plant in Springfield, Ore., since December 1989. The plant would be jointly owned by Arizona Public Service, Burns Holdings, Salt River Project and Southern California Edison. Areva would own a minor portion for the first 10 years, before divvying up its share proportionally among the other stakeholders. “We feel the Sedona site is excellent for our plans,” Burns Holdings CEO and owner C. Montgomery Burns said. “Excellent.”
Construction would likely not begin until summer 2017, after the conclusion of a National Environmental Policy Act assessment, which is set to be conducted this summer.
To read the complete story in the Redrock News, please click here. (A great April fools joke.)
