Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant | |
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![]() Maine Yankee nuclear power plant | |
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Country | United States |
Location | Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine |
Coordinates | 43°57′2″N 69°41′45″W / 43.95056°N 69.69583°W |
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 |
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.
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