Prairie Island
Nuclear Power Plant
Specifications:
Location: Welch, Minnesota (28 miles southeast of Twin Cities)
Generation: Two units - 1,060 Mw (Megawatts) total
Reactor type: Pressurized water
Date of commercial operation: Unit 1-Dec. 4, 1973 to the present; Unit
2-Dec. 21, 1974 to the present
Ownership: Northern States Power Company, a subsidiary of Xcel Energy
Inc.
Last Revised: December 28, 2011
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