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PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota regulators said Thursday they're monitoring the cleanup of a leak of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water from Xcel Energy's Monticello nuclear power plant, and the ...
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In November 2022, Xcel Energy's Monticello nuclear power plant leaked 400,000 gallons of radioactive water.The leak wasn't made public until now.
The Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant is a nuclear power plant located in Monticello, Minnesota, along the Mississippi River. The site, which began operating in 1971, has a single nuclear reactor ( boiling water reactor ) of the General Electric BWR-3 design generating 671 MWe.
An accident at the Sosnovy Bor nuclear plant leaked radioactive iodine into the air through a ruptured fuel channel. February 20, 1996: Waterford, Connecticut, United States: Leaking valve forced shutdown of Millstone Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 and 2, multiple equipment failures found. 0: 254: September 2, 1996: Crystal River, Florida, United ...
Steam leak in feed-water heater causes manual shutdown and damage to control board annunciator at the Millstone Nuclear Power Plant: 0: 7: September 29, 1999: Lower Alloways Creek, New Jersey, USA: Major Freon leak at Hope Creek Nuclear Facility causes ventilation train chiller to trip, releasing toxic gas and damaging the cooling system: 0: 2 ...
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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.