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Xcel Energy initially pinpointed the cause of a lengthy outage at its Prairie Island nuclear power plant as an equipment issue between the turbine and the electric grid. But that didn't quite tell ...
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 ...
Illinois electricity production by type. This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Illinois, sorted by type and name.In 2022, Illinois had a total summer capacity of 44,163 MW and a net generation of 185,223 GWh through all of its power plants. [2]
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 ...
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 ...
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear power plant accidents from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define nuclear energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.
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 ...