AM 1240 WJON » refueling outage http://wjon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 13:02:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Monticello Nuclear Plant Offline For 9 Weeks http://wjon.com/monticello-nuclear-plant-offline-for-9-weeks/ http://wjon.com/monticello-nuclear-plant-offline-for-9-weeks/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:30:07 +0000 Lee Voss http://wjon.com/?p=9346 The Monticello Nuclear Power Plant is offline for the next nine weeks for a planned refueling outage. The maintenance includes placing new fuel assemblies in the reactor, adding equipment to increase the plant's generating capacity and eight, new control rod blades. Xcel says the reactor is refueled every two years.

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