WELCH, Minn — Police in southern Minnesota reported a drone sighting at the Prairie Island Nuclear Plant in Welch. On Wednesday, Jan. 8 shortly after 6:30 p.m., the Goodhue County Sheriff's ...

Minnesota’s 31-year-old ban on new nuclear power plants is facing another challenge from utility companies and supporters of nuclear power, who say the technology is necessary to meet the state’s ...

Republicans focus in on ways to alleviate pressures of Democrats' 2023 “Carbon Free by 2040” bill, while testimony from the ...

According to a press release from the Red Wing Police Department, officers with the Goodhue County Sheriff's Office received a complaint from the Prairie Island Nuclear Plant on the 1700 block of ...

Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant pictured in 2017. GLEN STUBBE • [email protected] (Glen Stubbe/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

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Drones are prohibited from flying over nuclear power plants and other “sensitive facilities,” according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Prairie Island is one of two nuclear power plant ...

The federal government has given Xcel Energy permission to continue operating its nuclear power plant in Monticello ... its two Minnesota nuclear plants, at Prairie Island and Monticello, is ...

The plant is Monticello’s largest employer and local taxpayer. Together with its counterpart near Red Wing, MN, the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Monticello provides nearly a quarter ...

Momentum is building at the Minnesota Legislature to lift the 31-year-old moratorium on new nuclear plants, with newly empowered Republicans naming it a top priority and resistance softening among ...

Xcel has said continuing to operate its two Minnesota nuclear plants, at Prairie Island and Monticello ... The Monticello plant produces enough energy to power more than half a million homes ...