Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant

Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
Maine Yankee nuclear power plant
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CountryUnited States
LocationWiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine
Coordinates43°57′2″N 69°41′45″W / 43.95056°N 69.69583°W / 43.95056; -69.69583
StatusDecommissioned
Construction beganOctober 1, 1968
Commission dateDecember 28, 1972
Decommission dateAugust 1, 1997
Construction cost$231 million (1972 USD)
OperatorMaine Yankee Atomic Power Company
Nuclear power station
Reactor typePWR
Reactor supplierCombustion Engineering
Asea Brown Boveri
Cooling sourceBack River
Thermal capacity1 × 2630 MWth (decommissioned)
Power generation
Make and modelCE/ABB 3-loop design
Units decommissioned1 × 860 MW
Capacity factor68.2% (lifetime)
External links
WebsiteMaine Yankee
CommonsRelated media on Commons

Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant built at an 820-acre site on Bailey Peninsula of Wiscasset, Maine, in the United States. It operated from 1972 until 1996, when problems at the plant became too expensive to fix.[1] It was decommissioned and dismantled between 1997 and 2005, though some of the plant's nuclear waste is still stored on site, pending final disposal.

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