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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 ...
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.
A leak of what was believed to be hundreds of gallons of water containing tritium was discovered this week from a temporary fix at the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, where 400,000 gallons (1 ...
The Xcel Energy plant is located on the banks of the Mississippi River with the closest neighbourhood about a mile away 400,000 gallons of radioactive water leaked from nuclear plant before US ...
2024 Nuclear incident at Khabarovsk, Russia; 2022–2023 Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant leak; 2019 Radiation release during explosion and fire at Russian nuclear missile test site; 2017 Airborne radioactivity increase in Europe in autumn 2017; 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster; 2001 Instituto Oncologico Nacional radiotherapy accident
A fault in the main transformer at the Donald C. Cook nuclear power plant causes a fire that damages the main generator and back-up turbines: 0: 10: June 16, 2005: Braidwood, Illinois, USA: Exelon's Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station leaks tritium and contaminates local water supplies: 0: 41: August 4, 2005: Buchanan, New York, USA
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.
Some capacity was extended with transmission lines and substations. 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 ...