Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant
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The Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, (a nuclear power plant), is an electricity-generating facility located in Monticello, Minnesota along the Mississippi River. The site, which began operating in 1970, has a single nuclear reactor (boiling water reactor) of the General Electric BWR-3 design generating 553 megawatts. It is owned by Northern States Power Company (NSP), today a subsidiary of Xcel Energy, and is operated by Nuclear Management Company (NMC).
The reactor was licensed to operate until 2010, however on November 8, 2006, it was extended to operate until 2030. It is also likely that the facility will start storing radioactive waste in steel dry casks on-site in the coming years, like the downriver Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant has been doing since the 1990s.
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