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The Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company formed in 1966 with plans for a pressurized water reactor in Wiscasset, Maine, and a 40-year operating license.. Construction of the $231 million ($2,000,000,000 today [2]) plant ran from 1968 to 1972, whereupon the plant became Maine's sole operating nuclear power plant.
The Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant generated 860 MW of base load electricity during the years 1972 to 1996. Decommissioning was completed in 2005. Decommissioning was completed in 2005. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Maine had no utility-scale plants that used fissile material as a fuel in 2019.
At places like Maine Yankee, Connecticut Yankee and Rancho Seco, reactors no longer operate, but the spent fuel remains in small concrete-and-steel silos that require maintenance and monitoring by a guard force. Sometimes the presence of nuclear waste prevents re-use of the sites by industry. [16]
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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.
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