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	Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Prairie Island nuclear power plant is an electricity-generating facilitiy located in Red Wing, Minnesota along the Mississippi River, adjacent to the Prairie Island Indian Community reservation.
		It is one of two active nuclear facilities in Minnesota and has proven to be the most controversial due to the storage of nuclear waste in large steel casks on-site, an area which is a floodplain of the Mississippi.
		Opposition by environmentalists and the neighboring Prairie Island tribe led the Minnesota Legislature to decrease the number of allowed casks to 17, enough to keep the plant operating through approximately 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prairie_Island_Nuclear_Power_Plant (409 words)

	Prairie Island Community Responds to Xcel Energy's Plans to Seek More Nuclear Waste Storage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		And while the generating plants at Prairie Island and Monticello have emergency notification systems to warn nearby residents if there's an accident, those procedures might be too slow in the event of an attack, David Lochbaum, a nuclear expert with the Union of Concerned Scientists, testified before the Senate's commerce and utilities committee.
		Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota leaders have warned state legislators that a 1994 law allows the tribe to reject additional radioactive waste storage at the nuclear power plant in Red Wing.
		Due to its close proximity to the plant and safety concerns, the Prairie Island Indian Community was made a third-party beneficiary to the 1994 agreement and given standing to enforce the agreement.
	www.alphacdc.com /treaty/prairie_island.html (9715 words)

	Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant - Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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 Prairie Island units are operated as base-loaded (i.e.
		Some power plants, usually located on lakes or rivers, use cooling towers as a method of cooling the circulating water (the third non-radioactive cycle) that has been heated in the condenser.
	www.nucleartourist.com /us/prairie.htm (357 words)

	Resources on Minnesota Issues: Prairie Island Nuclear Waste Storage
		The Mdewkanton Dakota Prairie Island Tribe and environmental groups opposed to the storage facility appealed the PUC decision to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
		As Prairie Island continued operating, the 17 storage casks were gradually filled and it appeared that, unless additional storage capacity was added, the reactors might have to cease operations before their licenses expired.
		Prairie Island's two reactors, licensed by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, were licensed to operate through the end of 2013 and 2014, and the single reactor at the Monticello plant was licensed until 2010.
	www.leg.state.mn.us /lrl/issues/prairieisland.asp (1753 words)

	NMC - About Us - Locations - Prairie Island
		The Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant located near Red Wing, Minnesota, is owned by Xcel Energy Inc. The plant houses two pressurized water reactors, totaling 1,100 megawatts of capacity.
		Prairie Island is in excellent material condition and has a sustained history of world-class upper quartile performance for nuclear plants operated for more than 20 years.
		Prairie Island received the 1998 Westinghouse "American Beauty" award as one of top 10 most cost-effective plants in the U.S. over the previous three years.
	www.nmcco.com /about_us/locations/prairie_island.htm (225 words)

	MPIRG > Energy > Nuclear > Prairie Island
		The island lies in the Mississippi River, near Red Wing, and is not only home to the nuclear power plant, but the Mdewakanton Dakota Community as well.
		Nuclear power poses a number of problems in general, and risky radioactive waste storage techniques at Prairie Island add more.
		With Prairie Island being one of the few places with dry storage containers, that waste may be passed by for storage until a second site is found decades from now.
	www.mpirg.org /energy/nuclear/prairieisland (1113 words)

	FRONTLINE: nuclear reaction: Jim Howard
		Minnesota's Prairie Island nuclear power plant was nearly shut down when activists and the DOE stalled on setting up a permanent waste repository.
		Little hard pellets is basically what the nuclear fuel is. After it's been used in a nuclear reactor for say, up to 18 months or perhaps two years, then it has lost enough of its properties that it can't continue to be used.
		If the plant was going to continue to run, there had to be a place to put the spent fuel on a temporary basis, until the government finally some day did make good on its promise to take it on a permanent basis.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/interviews/howard.html (4349 words)

	ICT [2003/06/10] Prairie Island Tribe passes referendum, Xcel Energy Waste Bill becomes law
		The bill passed defines it as any electricity generated by a plant, including a tire-burning plant that incinerates waste tires, garbage incinerators, and a proposed coal gasification plant for the Iron Range in Northeast Minnesota.
		At the time the Prairie Island tribe lacked resources and funding to fight against construction of the plant.
		Prairie Island tribal elder Chris Leith, also known as Brave Thunderhorse, recalls "Over the years we have seen our tribal members become ill with cancer and other unexplained sicknesses, and now we can't even use the plants we once used for healing and medicines.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1055253145 (741 words)

	Prairie Island NSP Nuclear Power Plant
		In 1992, the Prairie Island Dakota shocked the larger community ba applying for a federal grant to study the feasibility of storing nucelar waste from around the country on the reservation.
		In 1996, the Prairie Island tribal council that was then in office came to an accord with NSP to allow the indefinite storage of nuclear waste next to the Prairie Island reactors in exchange for a $21 million payment and 1,750 acres of land for the tribe.
		The agreement was scorned by non-Indian environmentalists, and legislation to compensate the Dakota community for having to live next to the nuclear plant failed in the Legislature.
	www.nuclear-free.com /english/prairie.htm (857 words)

	State Nuclear Industry - Minnesota
		The Prairie Island nuclear power plant ranks second in capacity among Minnesota’s power plants.
		The current license application for the Monticello nuclear power plant expires in 2010, the earliest of the three commercial reactors.
		The current license for Prairie Island unit 1 expires in 2013, and that for unit 2 expires in 2014.
	www.eia.doe.gov /cneaf/nuclear/page/at_a_glance/states/statesmn.html (252 words)

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		In 1936, the Prairie Island Indian Community was recognized by the federal government and 534 acres (a tiny portion) of the island became our reservation.
		All it takes is one accident at the power plant and the health of our tribal members and the future of our tribe, including our successful tribal business, would be permanently devastated.
		And for the first time the Prairie Island community has been included in federal emergency planning related to the nuclear plant and has a voice in future federal plans that affect our people and our home.
	www.prairieisland.org /History2.htm (635 words)

	Mile 640: Gambling, shellfish and a nuclear reactor - The Mighty Miss - MSNBC.com
		Doreen Hagen, president of the Prairie Island Indian Community Tribal Council, says the tribe will fight to ensure that its homeland is not endangered by the nuclear reactor that is just 600 yards from reservation homes.
		Only later did they find out that the plant was a nuclear reactor, and the jobs never materialized, she said.
		The presence of the plant remains a major concern, both because there are 17 concrete “casks” with spent nuclear fuel rods stored on the grounds awaiting development of a permanent federal disposal site and because tribe members fear it could be a target for a Sept. 11 style terrorist attack.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5591511 (1634 words)

	MNHS.ORG \| Library \| History Topics \| Nuclear Power Plant Protests
		There is information on the construction and operation of nuclear plants at Becker, Henderson, and Prairie Island in Minnesota and in Tyrone, Wisconsin, and of a coal storage facility at Pig's Eye Island, St. Paul.
		The stories detail opposition to the plants, their construction, and give considerable information on various aspects of nuclear energy including pollution, waste storage, and human cost as opposed to economic gain.
		There is information on nuclear power and the environment, water and air pollution, radioactive wastes, lead poisoning, nuclear and other contamination of the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers and of Lake Superior.
	www.mnhs.org /library/tips/history_topics/22nuclear.html (732 words)

	Shundahai Network
		Nuclear Management said it shut down the unit when it determined that generator repairs would not be completed by Sunday night.
		Nuclear Management had replaced cylinder liners, rings and pistons in an engine of one twin-engine generator and was testing the repairs when it discovered high oil pressure in the other engine, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
		Prairie Island, located near Red Wing, is capable of generating 1,076 megawatts of electricity — about 20 percent of the power used in the Upper Midwest.
	www.shundahai.org /2-7-06PioPress_Xcel_Reactor_Shut_Down.htm (404 words)

	Prairie Island Community Responds to Xcel Energy's Plans to Seek More Nuclear Waste Storage (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A permanent national repository for nuclear waste, perhaps in Nevada, is not expected to be available until 2015 or later.
		"If nuclear energy is to remain in the state's energy mix, we need to make many decisions soon to keep our two nuclear plants operating," he said.
		Their bill, which isn' t expected to be voted on this year, would essentially undo a hard-fought 1994 agreement that allows Xcel Energy' s plant to store waste in up to 17 casks.
	www.alphacdc.com.cob-web.org:8888 /treaty/prairie_island.html (9718 words)

	Prairie Island Broke Labor Laws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The NLRB said Nuclear Management Co., which operates the Prairie Island facility for Xcel Energy Inc., improperly withheld wage increases for workers who voted in favor of union representation and refused to participate in collective bargaining meetings with employees who wore buttons critical of management.
		The board also has accused Nuclear Management, which operates six nuclear plants in the Midwest, of withholding wage increases at the Point Beach nuclear plant in Twin Rivers, Wis., which the company operates for Wisconsin Electric Power Co.
		The NLRB claims Nuclear Management also withheld wage increases for workers at the Point Beach nuclear plant eight days after workers there voted for union representation.
	www.allianceibm.org /prairieislandnlrb.htm (369 words)

	World Nuclear Association \| News Briefings \| Nuclear Energy News \| News Briefing 03.20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Asked whether nuclear power should be further developed, 41% said 'absolutely', 38% said 'yes, probably', while 14% thought it was not a good idea and 5% strongly opposed the idea.
		The plant is scheduled to begin operations in 2005 and handle a total of 32 100 tonnes of spent fuel for reprocessing over a 40-year period.
		The study found that nuclear industry discharges to sea are back at the same level as the early 1950s, and that naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) now dominate doses to the European Union (EU) population from industrial discharges, both in terms of alpha activity and collective dose.
	www.world-nuclear.org /nb/nb03/nb0320.htm (1637 words)

	Winona Daily News - 6.0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In lobbying to change the law, Xcel said the Prairie Island pool will be full in 2007 and the pool at its Monticello nuclear plant will fill up by 2010.
		According to an often-cited research brief by legislative analyst Mike Bull, the only explicit shutdown requirement in the 1994 legislation is for a nuclear plant running at less than 55 percent of its capacity for three years.
		Bob Kierlin, R-Winona, said he would not, adding: "The role of the nuclear power as generated in the Red Wing facility has shown itself to be a safe and efficient power source for the state of Minnesota."
	www.winonadailynews.com /articles/2003/04/27/news/01nuke.txt (1646 words)

	KAALtv.com - 6 NEWS FIRST Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This Xcel Energy facility is near the Prairie Island Indian Reservation--visible from Treasure Island casino.
		Emergency responders performed an exercise this week that simulated what would happen if there was an accident at the plant causing a release of dangerous radiation.
		The Department of Homeland Security conducts an emergency response exercise at the nuclear plant on Prairie Island every two years.
	www.kaaltv.com /article/view/102532 (288 words)

	Green Party of Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The nuclear reactor is commissioned to operate until 2013.
		The nuclear reactor is commissioned to operate until 2014.
		Law was passed authorizing 17 dry cask nuclear waste storage units on the island in exchange for:
	www.mngreens.org /nucleartimeline.php (485 words)

	The MPR News Forum - Prairie Island plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A group of lawmakers on Wednesday outlined a proposal to to extend the operational life of the Prairie Island nuclear power plant.
		Under a 1994 agreement between the state and Northern States Power -- now Xcel Energy -- the utility was restricted in its ability to store spent nuclear fuel at the Prairie Island facility.
		It's understandable,I guess to joke about potheads on the night shift at the hemp biomass fuel plant working in a haze of reefer smoke thereby producing a gallon a year.But let's look into what the Canadians are doing-and how commercially usable the hemp is with them.
	forum.mpr.org /WebX?14@@.ee85a86 (1027 words)

	Prairie Island Power Plant and Dry Casks Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Most of Prairie Island was under water from the flood of 1965 on the Mississippi River.
		The Prairie Island reactors are located about 35 miles Southeast of Minneapolis/St. Paul on the Mississippi River near Red Wing, Mn.
		As the loaded cask was lifted out of the pool, the crane froze; leaving the 122 ton cask dangling for 16 hours over the 22 year cumulative total of the Prairie Island reactors' waste in the fuel pool.
	www.mtn.org /pic/plantinfo.html (200 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Northern States Power Company (Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2); ...
		DPR-42 and DPR-60, issued to Northern States Power Company (NSP or the licensee), for operation of Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2, located in Goodhue County, Minnesota.
		The plant operators must operate the plant in a pressure window that is between the minimum pressure required to preserve reactor coolant pump seals and at a maximum pressure that does not challenge the power-operated relief valve setpoint.
		Without the application of ASME Code Case N-514, Prairie Island would have an operating window that is too narrow to permit reasonable system makeup and pressure control.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1998/April/Day-29/i11339.htm (786 words)

	MPIRG > Energy > Nuclear > Prairie Island
		In 1991, NSP applied for a permit (certificate of need) from the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to store high-level radioactive waste in 48 "dry-casks" at its Prairie Island nuclear plant, located on the bank of the Mississippi River, near Red Wing and the Mdewakanton Dakota Tribe.
		MPIRG established and staffed the Prairie Island Coalition Against Nuclear Storage (PICANS), a coalition of the state's 18 leading environmental organizations, and during 1991 and 1992, provided PICANS with research, fundraising assistance and legal representation.
		Ultimately, the Legislature approved a 17 cask facility, but expressly limited it to 17, implemented a moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants, and required NSP to plan for a shut down of the plant in 2002 and to make significant investments in renewable energy resources.
	www.mpirg.org /energy/nuclear/prairieisland/history.html (656 words)

	NRC: News Release - Region III - 2006 - NRC to Discuss 2005 Performance Assessment for Prairie Island Nuclear Power ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will meet with representatives of Nuclear Management Co. on Wednesday, April 12, to discuss the agency’s assessment of safety performance for last year at the Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant.
		in Classroom 3 of the Prairie Island Training Center, 1660 Wakonade Dr. West, Welch, Minn. The NRC staff will present the results of the assessment and be available to respond to questions or comments from the public before the close of the meeting.
		All of the inspection findings and performance indicators for Prairie Island during 2005 were determined to be "green." As a result of this performance, the NRC will conduct the normal, baseline level of inspections during the upcoming year.
	www.nrc.gov.cob-web.org:8888 /reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2006/06-015iii.html (455 words)

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