YANKEE ROWE NUCLEAR POWER GENERATING STATION 72652

Created by the Western Massachusetts Electric Company "Pioneering with Power" presents an early view of the Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station. Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station (now decommissioned) was a nuclear power plant in Rowe, Massachusetts, that operated from 1960 to 1992.

The Yankee Nuclear Power Station (YNPS) - also known as "Yankee Rowe" - was the third[citation needed] commercial nuclear power plant built in the United States and the first built in New England. The 185-megawatt electric pressurized-water Yankee Rowe plant, located on the Deerfield River in the town of Rowe in western Massachusetts, tight on the border of Readsboro, Vermont, permanently shut down on February 26, 1992, after more than 31 years of producing electricity for New England electric consumers.

According to several sources Yankee Rowe was the first commercial PWR operating in the United States. This view discards the government-sponsored Shippingport Atomic Power Station, which was not built on a commercial basis and relied on several technologies that would not be embraced by the commercial operators. The Dresden Generating Station, a commercial boiling water reactor (BWR), slightly preceded the opening of Yankee Rowe in 1960. US government sources place the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction at Dresden-1 on 15 October 1959 and the first one at Yankee Row on 19 August 1960.[6] (These dates probably preceded the entering into commercial operation of either plant by several months.)

Construction of the plant was completed in 1960 at a cost of $39 million. The capital cost was $45 million against an estimated cost of $57 million, according to the engineering consultant Kenneth Nichols, who had been deputy to Leslie Groves on the Manhattan Project. 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 plant, the first large-scale nuclear unit and the first privately owned pressurized-water plant, was shut down prematurely due to reactor pressure vessel embrittlement concerns,[8] a safety factor now scrutinized in all plants (see ductility).

Yankee Atomic Electric Company (YAEC) was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1954. YAEC was sponsored by ten New England utilities for the purpose of constructing and operating New England's first nuclear power plant, the Yankee Nuclear Power Station.

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