Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant

Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
Maine Yankee nuclear power plant
Country	United States
Location	Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine
Coordinates	43°57′2″N 69°41′45″W / 43.95056°N 69.69583°W / 43.95056; -69.69583
Status	Decommissioned
Construction began	October 1, 1968
Commission date	December 28, 1972
Decommission date	August 1, 1997
Construction cost	$231 million (1972 USD)
Operator(s)	Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company
Nuclear power station
Reactor type	PWR
Reactor supplier	Combustion Engineering Asea Brown Boveri
Cooling source	Back River
Thermal capacity	1 × 2630 MWth (decommissioned)
Power generation
Make and model	CE/ABB 3-loop design
Units decommissioned	1 × 860 MW
Capacity factor	68.2% (lifetime)
External links
Website	Maine Yankee
Commons	Related media on Commons
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Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant built at an 820-acre site on Bailey Peninsula of Wiscasset, Maine, in the United States. It operated from 1972 until 1996, when problems at the plant became too expensive to fix.^[1] It was decommissioned and dismantled between 1997 and 2005, though some of the plant's nuclear waste is still stored on site, pending final disposal.