Palisades Nuclear Generating Station
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Palisades Nuclear Generating Station
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 Location of Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan
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| Country | United States |
| Location | Covert Township, Van Buren County, near South Haven, Michigan |
| Coordinates | 42°19′22″N 86°18′52″W / 42.32278°N 86.31444°WCoordinates: 42°19′22″N 86°18′52″W / 42.32278°N 86.31444°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Commission date | December 31, 1971 |
| Decommission date | 2018 (planned) |
| Construction cost | $149 million |
| Operator(s) | Entergy Nuclear |
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| Reactor type | pressurized water reactor |
| Reactor supplier | Combustion Engineering |
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| Units operational | 1 CE x 800 MW |
| Annual output | 5,826 GWh |
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Website www.entergy-nuclear.com/.../palisades |
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The Palisades Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located on Lake Michigan, in Van Buren County's Covert Township, Michigan, on a 432-acre (175 ha) site 5 miles (8.0 km) south of South Haven, Michigan, USA. Palisades is owned and operated by Entergy. It was operated by the Nuclear Management Company and owned by CMS Energy Corporation prior to the sale completed on April 11, 2007.
Its single Combustion Engineering pressurized water reactor weighs 425 tons and has steel walls 8 1⁄2 inches (220 mm) thick. The containment building is 116 feet (35 m) in diameter and 189 feet (58 m) tall, including the dome. Its concrete walls are 3 1⁄2 feet (1.1 m) thick with a 1⁄4-inch-thick (6.4 mm) steel liner plate. The dome roof is 3 feet (0.91 m) thick. Access is via a personnel lock measuring 3 feet 6 inches (1.07 m) by 7 feet 8 inches (2.34 m). The Westinghouse Electric Company turbine generator can produce 725,000 kilowatts of electricity.
Built between 1967 and 1970, Palisades was approved to operate at full power in 1973.
On July 12, 2006 it was announced that the plant would be sold to Entergy. On April 11, 2007, the plant was sold to Entergy for $380 million. The plant's original licensee was due to expire on March 24, 2011. An application for 20-year extension was filed in 2005 with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It was granted on January 18, 2007. Therefore, the plant was then scheduled for decommissioning by 2031.
Entergy plans to close the Palisades plant in 2018.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway zone with a radius of 10 miles (16 km), concerned primarily with exposure to, and inhalation of, airborne radioactive contamination, and an ingestion pathway zone of about 50 miles (80 km), concerned primarily with ingestion of food and liquid contaminated by radioactivity.
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