Elk River Nuclear Power Plant

Elk River Nuclear Power Plant
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location
Coordinates	45 ° 17 '43 "  N , 93 ° 33' 24"  W Coordinates: 45 ° 17 '43 "  N , 93 ° 33' 24"  W.
Country:	United States
Data
Commercial operation:	July 1, 1964
Shutdown:	Feb. 1, 1968
Decommissioned reactors (gross):	1 (24 MW)
Was standing:	March 18, 2008
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The dismantled nuclear power plant Elk River ( English Elk River Station ) with a boiling water reactor was in Elk River in the US state of Minnesota .

history

The Elk River Power Plant was not always a nuclear power plant. Originally there was a coal and oil -fired power plant on the site . Later the plant was rebuilt and a boiling water reactor was placed on the site. The reactor was only a very small reactor at 24 megawatts. The reactor was demolished again in the 1970s. Today only waste from the area is incinerated.

Data of the reactor blocks

The Elk River Nuclear Power Plant has one block :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Elk River	Boiling water reactor	22 MW	24 MW	01/01/1959	08/24/1963	07/01/1964	02/01/1968

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1. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)