The Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant was the first plant in the industry to try on for size the new INPO evaluation process. The INPO mid-cycle evaluation is taking the form of a pilot, completed in three stages. For the first week, the full evaluation team was on site at Prairie Island; during the second...

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Monticello Nuclear Generating Station has completed an effort to significantly reduce radiation-dose exposure and maintain reactor-vessel corrosion protection. The On-Line Noble Chemistry (OLNC) project conducted its first water-treatment process in October, but future treatments will continue to pay dividends at the plant in Monticello, Minn. “The On-line Noble Chemistry project will have the most meaningful...

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Forty years ago, nuclear power generated by Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant began lighting hundreds of thousands of houses in the Upper Midwest as Unit 1 came online after several years of construction. A year later, Unit 2 came on line and the station took its place in the Northern States Power portfolio. Four decades...

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Xcel Energy and the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant Training Center picked up a prestigious Top Industry Practice (TIP) Award from the Nuclear Energy Institute at the Nuclear Energy Assembly in Arizona. The Monticello training team won an award for developing a training simulation that enhances preparedness of various accident scenarios. Using 3-D graphics and a...

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