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Unit 2 at Prairie Island remained largely down until last week, and Xcel's second nuclear plant in Monticello even powered down briefly in a non-emergency incident during system testing.
Prairie Island is one of two nuclear power plants in Minnesota (the other being Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant in Monticello). Prairie Island has attracted controversy in the early 21st century for its operator Xcel Energy's decision to store nuclear waste in large steel casks on-site.
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 ...
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 ...
Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant: Monticello, Minnesota: 671 1 Boiling Water Reactor: Xcel Energy: 1971 Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant: Red Wing, Minnesota: 1,092 2 Pressurized Water Reactor: Xcel Energy: 1974
The currently operational nuclear power plants are Prairie Island (1974), and Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant (1971). [1] Sherburne County Generating Station (Sherco) and Allen S. King in Bayport are the last to be fueled by coal. Three other coal-fired plants, Riverside, High Bridge, and Black Dog, have been retrofitted to run on natural gas.
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 ...
The Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant under construction (now halted) This table lists stations under construction stations without any reactor in service. Planned connection column indicates the connection of the first reactor, not thus whole capacity.