Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant

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Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant
Reactor complex in 2007. Note the demolished turbine building behind the containment buildings.
Reactor complex in 2007. Note the demolished turbine building behind the containment buildings.
location
Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant, Indiana
Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant
Coordinates 38 ° 36 '3 "  N , 85 ° 26' 45"  W Coordinates: 38 ° 36 '3 "  N , 85 ° 26' 45"  W.
Data
Owner: Public Service Company of Indiana (PSI)
Project start: 1977
Shutdown: 1984
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .
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Marble Hill was an unfinished nuclear power plant in Saluda Township in Jefferson County, Indiana, near Hanover, Indiana, USA. In 1984 the Public Service Company of Indiana announced that it would give up the half-finished power plant, in which $ 2.5 billion had been invested by then.

history

Construction began in 1977, and in 1984 the Public Service Company of Indiana (PSI), now Duke Energy , abandoned the half-finished project. At a cost of $ 2.5 billion, and as the most expensive nuclear project ever abandoned, Marble Hill was a devastating setback for the ailing nuclear industry, which had more than 100 project tasks to deal with after the meltdown in Three Mile Island . On March 18, 2005, the demolition of the unfinished power plant began.

Long before 1984, Marble Hill was a controversial endeavor. In 1978 and 1979, the Ohio Valley regional environmental group, The Paddlewheel Alliance, hosted two non-violent occupations of the PSI property. When local support waned, Marble Hill's fate was in the hands of the Indiana government, and PSI sought state guarantees for Construction Work in Progress (CWIP).

In the end, PSI announced it would be giving up Marble Hill due to overwhelming cost spikes and tight finances. In October 1985 PSI held an auction for reactor materials that had already been purchased to the value of approximately 8 million US dollars.

Construction freeze and demolition

The lower part of the reactor pressure vessel in reactor 1 was already installed when construction stopped. The power station building has already been demolished. In 1990, Power Equipment Supply Co. ("PESCO") was established to sell materials from the Marble Hill Facility Project, and in 1996 Pesco was dissolved.

Marble Hill is currently owned by an undisclosed Michigan-based company and is under demolition under a contract with MCM Management Corp. The fuel handling building, among other things, has been demolished since 2008. In August 2010, one of the containment buildings was demolished and the reactor core removed from the other. By December 2011, both containment domes and an estimated one-third of the cell coolers had been destroyed. The demolition of the control building had also begun.

literature

  • Time Magazine: "Nuclear Fissures" Monday Jan. 30, 1984.
  • UPI, The New York Times Business page: "Plan Rejected For Marble Hill", June 19, 1984 10-K SEC Filing, filed by PSI ENERGY INC on 3/27/1997

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19781009&id=AIIpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tWUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3133,1137143%7Cwork= Lewiston Evening Journal
  2. HALF-BUILT INDIANA NUCLEAR PLANT ABANDONED AT A $ 2.5 BILLION COST . 17th January 1984.
  3. PSI Begins Selling Marble Hill Equipment .