Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station
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Fort Calhoun plant, seen from U.S. Highway 75
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 Location of Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant in Nebraska
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| Country | United States |
| Location | Washington County, near Blair, Nebraska |
| Coordinates | 41°31′13″N 96°4′38″W / 41.52028°N 96.07722°WCoordinates: 41°31′13″N 96°4′38″W / 41.52028°N 96.07722°W |
| Status | Inactive |
| Construction began | 1966 |
| Commission date | August 9, 1973 |
| Decommission date | October 24, 2016 |
| Owner(s) | Omaha Public Power District |
| Operator(s) | Exelon Nuclear Partners |
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| Reactor type | Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) |
| Reactor supplier | Combustion Engineering |
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| Units decommissioned | 1 x 476 MW |
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The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station is a shut down nuclear power plant located on 660 acres (2.7 km2) between Fort Calhoun, and Blair, Nebraska adjacent to the Missouri River between mile markers 645.6 and 646.0. The utility has an easement for another 580 acres (2.3 km2) which is maintained in a natural state. The power plant is owned by the Omaha Public Power District of Omaha, Nebraska and operated by Exelon Nuclear Partners. When operational, the plant accounts for 25 percent of OPPD's net generation capabilities, but was shut down from April 2011 to December 2013 because regulators had found several problems. The plant was cleared to restart in December 2013.
This plant has one Combustion Engineering pressurized water reactor generating 484 megawatts of electricity. This is currently the smallest rated capacity among all operating commercial power reactors in North America, and as a single-unit plant, this also qualifies it as the smallest rated capacity nuclear power plant. OPPD's two Nebraska City coal-fired plants at 682 (opened 2009) and 649 (opened 1979) MW are both significantly larger.
Fort Calhoun houses spent fuel rods in a 40-foot (12 m) deep spent fuel pool next to the reactor, and when the pool had nearly reached capacity in 2006, OPPD began to store spent fuel rods above ground in dry cask storage as well. In total, the Ft. Calhoun reactor has 600,000 to 800,000 pounds (270,000 to 360,000 kg) of high level nuclear waste. The storage was not designed to house spent fuel permanently, but when plans for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository were terminated, OPPD stated that they are "prepared to safely store material on-site as long as necessary".
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