FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Xcel Energy says it needs to store far more nuclear waste at its Prairie Island facility to extend the plant’s life by 20 years, as it has proposed in its long-range plan.
Keeping the plant’s two units running until 2053 and 2054 is a crucial part of Xcel’s blueprint for a carbon-free energy grid. Nuclear provides about a third of the energy on the Minneapolis-based company’s upper Midwest system.
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