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The Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant was a General Electric Boiling Water Reactor located in Wading River , Suffolk County , Long Island , New York , 60 miles east of Manhattan . The Plant was designed to produce 800 MWe. The Plant never operated commercially, but did undergo low power testing. It never produced a single kilowatt of electric power. The plant was decommisioned in 1994 . On April 13 , 1965 , the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) announced the Shoreham Nuclear Plant, the first and only Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island (although there has been nuclear research and multiple research reactors at Brookhaven National Laboratory ). The plant was a virtual twin to the Millstone 1 plant in Connecticut, which was completed for $101 million. The plant was built between 1973 and 1984. Originally set in an area dominated by potato fields, by the time the plant was ready to operate the urban area had grown out to encroach on the site. Since the Emergency Planning Zones crossed both of the highways leading off the island, the populus was concerned that in the event of an accident evacuation would be impossible. After the Three Mile Island and the Chernobyl accidents, public opposition to the plant rose significantly. The plant never received a full power license from the NRC due to the fact that NY governor Mario Cuomo representatives did not sign the Emergency Evacuation Plan. It did receive a low power license from the NRC. On May 19 , 1989 , LILCO agreed not to operate the plant in a deal with the state under which most of the $6 billion cost of the plant was passed on to the consumers. The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), headed by Richard Kessel, was created in 1986 specifically to buy Shoreham from LILCO (which it did in 1992 ). Shoreham was fully decommissioned in 1994. EXTERNAL LINKS SEE ALSO |
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