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Generation of Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Station [6] Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual (Total) 2001 618,437: 389,471: 812,451:
In the U.S., at least 56 nuclear reactor accidents have occurred. [2] The most serious of these U.S. accidents was the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station has been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United States since ...
Dec. 13—PINE ISLAND — The U.S. Department of the Interior moved 400 acres of Olmsted County land owned by the Prairie Island Indian Community into trust Friday, clearing the way for "an ...
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station surrounded by the 2011 Missouri River Floods on June 16, 2011. In 2012, Larry Criscione and Richard H. Perkins publicly accused the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission of downplaying flood risks for nuclear plants which are sited on waterways downstream from large reservoirs and dams.
Xcel Energy has promised state officials its Prairie Island nuclear power plant is almost back to full power despite the outage dragging on for nearly two months longer than expected. The ...
Beyond the Prairie Island plant, Xcel said by 2030 it would seek 3,200 megawatts of new wind, 400 megawatts of large-scale solar and another 1,000 megawatts of other solar like from small-scale ...
The segment features quotes from Dan Hirsch, a nuclear policy analyst, and David Lochbaum. The segment alleged that the incident was kept secret for 20 years, and the radioactivity release from the incident may have been as high as 240 times the radioactivity released from the accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station. [33]
Xcel Energy says it needs to store far more nuclear waste at its Prairie Island facility to extend the plant's life for 20 years, as it has proposed in its long-range plan. Keeping the plant's two ...