The Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant is an electricity-generating facility located in Red Wing, Minnesota, along the Mississippi River, and adjacent to the Prairie Island Indian Community reservation.

Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit 1 Location: Welch, MN (28 miles SE of Minneapolis, MN) in Region III Operator: Northern States Power Co. – Minnesota

2022年8月31日 · A new virtual 3D tour invites you into Minnesota’s Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant in a way no one has ever experienced. Xcel Energy welcomes you to look around and learn a bit about how nuclear energy plays a central role in the company’s pioneering vision to pursue a zero-carbon future.

2023年11月22日 · Minnesota’s Prairie Island nuclear power plant is offline after an electrical problem in one of its units coincided with a planned refueling shutdown in the other. In a Nuclear Regulatory...

The Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant is located on the Mississippi River near Red Wing, approximately 50 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. The facility, owned/operated by Northern States Power (NSP), has 2 units, each with a 2 Loop Westinghouse Pressurized Water Reactor .

MINNEAPOLIS (October 9, 2023) — Workers at Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island Nuclear Plant began a two-month refueling and maintenance effort on October 6, allowing the facility to continue providing reliable, carbon-free energy for more than one …

Program (REMP) conducted by Environmental, Inc., Midwest Laboratory at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Red Wing, Minnesota, during the period January - December, 2021. This program monitors the levels of radioactivity in the air, terrestrial, and aquatic

2022年10月12日 · The Prairie Island nuclear plant was a game changer in the power sector in Minnesota. In 2017, the two nuclear reactors were able to produce 8745 GWh annually [1]. That's more than enough power to provide 6 billion houses with electricity.

MINNEAPOLIS (Sept. 24, 2024) – Workers at Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island Nuclear Plant began a nine-week refueling and maintenance effort on September 20, allowing the facility to continue providing reliable, carbon-free energy for more than one million customers throughout the Upper Midwest and remain an economic engine for the region.

2003年2月7日 · 1973: NSP's Prairie Island nuclear power plant officially opens on the banks of the Mississippi River, about 10 miles north of Red Wing. 1989: NSP announces plans to develop a dry cask storage facility at Prairie Island to deal …