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Xcel Energy initially pinpointed the cause of a lengthy outage at its Prairie Island nuclear power plant as an equipment issue between the turbine and the electric grid. But that didn't quite tell the full story: Xcel workers at the plant actually cut a bundle of power cables when drilling sideways underground last October, interrupting power to some of the Red Wing plant's equipment and ...

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that dueling experts share their greatest worries about the nuclear waste.

An equipment issue at the Prairie Island plant near Red Wing hasn't impacted electric service, but it could lead to higher fuel costs that are passed down to Xcel's customers on their monthly bills.  By Walker Orenstein Star Tribune, NOVEMBER 22, 2023 An equipment problem at Xcel Energy's nuclear power plant near Red Wing has shut…

The Highlands Current, By Brian PJ Cronin, Reporter | September 29, 2023  #antinuclear #nuclear-free #NoNukes Holtec considering ‘multiple options’ but won’t say more A month after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill preventing Holtec from discharging water from Indian Point’s spent fuel pools into the Hudson River, the company said it hasn’t yet decided what it will do with the waste.…

Says it will not wait for state endorsement

If California decides to support license renewal of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, a portion of the “transition costs” that the Energy Department and the state may provide to keep the plant operating should be allocated to reducing its vulnerability to earthquakes. The risk is not negligible, and the potential costs of an earthquake-induced accident could, by our estimate, cause more than 10,000 cancer deaths and over $100 billion in damages.

The Plymouth nuclear plant releases small amounts of radiation as part of its normal operation. As it prepares to shut down, some worry about what will be left behind.

For 36 years things had been quiet at Chornobyl. Not uneventful. Not safe. But no one was warning of ‘another Chornobyl’ until Russian forces took over the site on February 24 of this...