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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:
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant; Prairie Island is located in Red Wing, Minnesota. Prairie Island is also owned by NSP, now part of Xcel Energy. Prairie Island is a two unit PWR, with Unit 1 licensed through 2033 and Unit 2 licensed through 2034. Duane Arnold Energy Center (sold in 2006) DAEC, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is Iowa's ...
TMI-1 was not damaged in the accident that damaged the power station in March of 1979. But the partial meltdown of TMI-2, the second reactor on the site, was the most serious nuclear accident in ...