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Shoreham tests eye power plant cooling

A solution to the decades-old problem of how to cool older power plants without killing marine life may soon lie 30 feet beneath the bottom of Long Island Sound, just outside the shuttered Shoreham nuclear power plant.

There, a $1.2-million experiment paid for by LIPA, National Grid and New York State will soon begin to test the feasibility of drawing water through a 500-foot-long pipe deep...

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