Yankee Rowe
Rowe, Mass., United
States Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) Net Output: 167 MWe Permanently shutdown. Date started: 07/1961. Date closed : 09/1991.
The 600-megawatt
pressurized-water
Yankee Rowe Nuclear
Station, located in
Rowe, Massachusetts,
was the third
nuclear power plant
built in the United
States. Construction
of the plant was
completed in 1960 at
a cost of $39
million. During its
32-year operating
history, the Yankee
plant generated over
34 billion
kilowatt-hours of
electricity, and had
a lifetime capacity
factor of 74%.
The Yankee Rowe
plant was
permanently shut
down in October,
1991. The decision
was made to
dismantle the plant
when a low-level
radioactive waste
site was available
and return the site
to a green field
condition, During
late 1993 and early
1994, the four steam
generators, the
pressurizer, and
reactor internals
were removed and
shipped to a
low-level
radioactive waste
disposal facility in
Barnwell, South
Carolina.
Decommissioning is
expected to be
completed by the end
of 1997, although
Yankee's 533 spent
fuel assemblies will
continue to be
stored on-site until
a national
high-level waste
storage facility or
repository is built
for commercial spent
fuel from U.S.
nuclear plants.
