Minnesota's Prairie Island Nuclear Station Takes Unit 1 Offline for Repairs

SUGAR LAND--January 27, 2015--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Station, which is located in Welch, Minnesota, took Unit 1 offline early Tuesday morning in a forced outage. The station is owned by Entergy Nuclear Generation, a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation (NYSE:ETR) (New Orleans, Louisiana).

Within this article: Details on the outage, including affected capacity, suspected causes and current schedules.

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