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The plant is Missouri's only nuclear power plant and is close to Fulton, Missouri. [2] The 2,767 acres (1,120 ha) site began operations on December 19, 1984. It generates electricity from one 1,190-megawatt Westinghouse four-loop pressurized water reactor and a General Electric turbine-generator. The Ameren Corporation owns and operates the ...
According to the Sierra Club, as of 2016 there were a total of 16 coal-fired power plants in Missouri, a decrease from 2012, when there were 23. [5] A Missouri City coal-fired power plant operated by Independence Power & Light closed in 2015; the facility was aging (60 years old) and could not comply with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pollution regulations. [6]
It is operated by Ameren Missouri. The pumped-storage hydroelectric plant was constructed from 1960–1962 and was designed to help meet daytime peak electric power demand. [8] It began operation in 1963. Electrical generators are turned by water flowing from a reservoir on top of Proffit Mountain into a lower reservoir on the East Fork of the ...
Operations at the Pantex nuclear weapons plant have been paused until further notice as officials monitor wildfires near the facility northeast of Amarillo. Pantex suspends operations as nearby ...
Ameren's (AEE) new Atchison Renewable Energy Center along with the 400-MW High Prairie Renewable Energy Center will add around 700 MW of in-state wind generation to the grid.
The Tokaimura nuclear reprocessing plant fire and explosion. 37 workers were exposed to low doses of radiation. Donen later acknowledged it had initially suppressed information about the fire. [42] [46] 0: 18 Jun 1999: Shika, Japan: Wrong handling of some control rods set off an uncontrolled nuclear reaction. [42]
An explosion injured six people inside a home shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday in east Jefferson City, Missouri, fire officials said.
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear reactor 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 major energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.