Palisades Nuclear Generating Station

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The Palisades nuclear power plant (English Palisades Nuclear Generating Station ) is a nuclear power plant with a pressurized water reactor, which was built by Combustion Engineering. It is located in Covert Township ( Van Buren County) on the east shore of Lake Michigan in the U.S. state of Michigan.

History

The construction of the nuclear power plant was started in 1967 and at 31 December 1971 it took on the commercial operation.

For the techniques used in the exchange of the two steam generators in 1992, Bechtel was awarded the NOVA award from the Construction Innovation Forum.

In 2004, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC ) approved a net capacity increase of 1.4% from 780 MW to 792 MW.

The operation given license originally ran until 24 March 2011. 2005 A completed application for renewal of the operating license by 20 years was approved by the NRC on 17 January 2007, so the license will expire by 21 March 2031.

The power plant was sold in April 2007 for 380 million U.S. dollars from Consumers Energy to Entergy.

Data of the reactor block

Swell

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