Elk River Station

This article is about the power plant. For the commuter rail station, see Elk River (Metro Transit station).

Elk River Station is an energy-from-waste plant operating in Elk River, Minnesota that generates 35 to 42 megawatts of electrical power.

The site was originally built as a coal and oil-fired facility in 1950, then construction began on a nuclear power plant (boiling water reactor) in 1959.^[1] The nuclear reactor was small (22 MW^[1]) and only operated from July 1, 1964^[1] until February 1, 1968^[1] before undergoing decommission and dismantlement in the following years, ending in the early 1970s. Some of the spent nuclear fuel from Elk River was sent to Italy for reprocessing as part of a thorium fuel cycle research program; decades later this became the subject of diplomatic exchanges regarding its ultimate fate.^[2]

Elk River resumed operating on coal and oil in 1968.

In 1989, the facility was again converted, this time to use Refuse Derived Fuel or (RDF) for fuel. The RDF is made from municipal solid waste. Waste arrives from Anoka, Benton, Hennepin, Sherburne, and Stearns counties, and the ash remaining after incineration is taken to a landfill in Becker, Minnesota.

Elk River Station is operated by the Great River Energy cooperative.

Notes

1 2 3 4 . IAEA. 2013-04-13 http://www.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails.aspx?current=596. Retrieved 2013-04-14. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ WikiLeaks cable: 04ROME3592; Repatriating Spent Elk River Fuel From Italy - Secretary Abraham's Response To Prime Minister's Office
WikiLeaks cable: 06ROME439; Disposition Of Elk River Spent Nuclear Fuel: Letter From U/s Of The Council Of Ministers Gianni Letta To Ambassador
WikiLeaks cable: 06ROME903; Sending Spent Elk River Fuel To India
WikiLeaks cable: 08ROME1538; Italian Nuclear Material: Sogin Response To Gtri Action Paper

Nuclear power in the United States

Reactors

NRC Region I (Northeast)	Beaver Valley Calvert Cliffs FitzPatrick Ginna Hope Creek Indian Point Units 2 and 3 Limerick Millstone Units 2 and 3 Nine Mile Point Oyster Creek Peach Bottom Pilgrim Salem Seabrook Susquehanna Three Mile Island Unit 1

NRC Region II (South)	Browns Ferry Brunswick Catawba Farley Harris Hatch McGuire North Anna Oconee Robinson Sequoyah St. Lucie Summer Surry Turkey Point Vogtle Watts Bar

NRC Region III (Midwest)	Braidwood Byron Clinton Cook DAEC Davis–Besse Dresden Fermi LaSalle Monticello Palisades Perry Point Beach Prairie Island Quad Cities

NRC Region IV (West)	Arkansas Callaway Columbia Comanche Peak Cooper Diablo Canyon Fort Calhoun Grand Gulf Palo Verde River Bend South Texas Waterford Wolf Creek

Converted	Midland (natural gas) Somerset (coal) Zimmer (coal)

Closed	Big Rock Point Connecticut Yankee Crystal River CVTR EBR I EBR II Elk River Fort St. Vrain Hallam Hanford Site Humboldt Bay Indian Point Unit 1 Kewaunee La Crosse Maine Yankee Millstone Unit 1 Pathfinder Piqua Rancho Seco San Onofre Sodium Reactor Experiment Saxton ANPP SL-1 SM-1 ML-1 PM-1 PM-3A SM-1A MH-1A Shippingport Shoreham Three Mile Island Unit 2 Trojan Vallecitos Vermont Yankee Yankee Rowe Zion

Canceled	Allens Creek Atlantic Bailly Barton Black Fox Blue Hills Bodega Bay Clinch River Erie Forked River Galena Greene County Hartsville Haven Marble Hill Montague Offshore Sears Isle Skagit/Hanford South River Stanislaus Sundesert Victoria WPPSS 1 3 4 5 MM-1 Yellow Creek

Future	Bell Bend Bellefonte Lee Levy

Under construction	Summer-2 Summer-3 Vogtle-3 Vogtle-4 Watts Bar-2

External links

Elk River Energy Recovery Station

Coordinates: 45°17′43″N 93°33′24″W / 45.295172°N 93.5567°W / 45.295172; -93.5567

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