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The Palisades Nuclear Power Plant is located on a site of 432 acres (2 km²) near 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 . It was built at a cost of $149 mllion. Its single Combustion Engineering Pressurized Water Reactor weighs 425 tons and has steel walls eight and one-half inches thick. The containment building has concrete walls three and one-half feet thick with a quarter-inch steel liner. The Westinghouse Electric Company turbine generator can produce 725,000 kilowatts of electricity. It first generated electricity December 31 , 1971 . On July 12 , 2006 it was announced that the plant would be sold to Entergy . {Link without Title} 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 . {Link without Title} SPENT FUEL STORAGE Spent fuel rods are stored outdoors in nine 16-foot-tall casks, each containing 30 tons and resting on a concrete pad. This is a temporary solution until the spent fuel repository at Yucca Mountain opens. PARTS REPLACEMENT Two faulty Steam Generators were replaced in 1992. This involved cutting a 28 by 26 foot opening through the 3.5 foot thick reinforced concrete wall. The removed units are buried in a large concrete bunker on plant property. {Link without Title} EXTERNAL LINKS |
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