威斯康星州热那亚村 Dairyland 电力拟在已退役核电站址建小型模块化核反应堆
Dairyland 电力合作社11月12日宣布，与总部位于新奥尔良的开发商应用原子能公司合作，研究在热那亚村附近已退役的拉克罗斯沸水反应堆旧址新建核电站。这将是近40年来威斯康星州西部首次恢复核电。旧核电站装机5万千瓦，1969年至1987年运行，是威斯康星州首座核电站，站内至今仍存放乏燃料；同一站址还有一座2021年关闭的34.5万千瓦燃煤电厂。双方将评估建设一座或多座小型模块化反应堆，总装机约15万千瓦，并于2027年底前决定是否推进项目，最早2032年投运。Dairyland 总部位于拉克罗斯，为威斯康星州西部及伊利诺伊、艾奥瓦、明尼苏达部分地区的24家成员合作社与27家市政公用事业供电。威州电力需求预计到2032年增长40%，主要来自超级智能（SI）数据中心，是推动核电回归的重要原因。
Genoa, Wisconsin: Dairyland Power Plans Small Modular Nuclear Reactors at Retired Nuclear Plant Site
Dairyland Power Cooperative announced on November 12 that it will work with New Orleans-based developer Applied Atomics to study building a new nuclear power station at the retired La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor site near the village of Genoa. It would be the first return of nuclear power to western Wisconsin in nearly 40 years. The old plant, rated at 50,000 kilowatts, operated from 1969 to 1987 as Wisconsin's first nuclear power station, and spent fuel is still stored on site; the same site also hosts a 345,000-kilowatt coal plant that closed in 2021.
The partners will evaluate building one or more small modular reactors totaling about 150,000 kilowatts, decide by the end of 2027 whether to proceed, and target operation as early as 2032. Dairyland is headquartered in La Crosse and supplies power to 24 member cooperatives and 27 municipal utilities across western Wisconsin and parts of Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota. Wisconsin's electricity demand is expected to grow 40% by 2032, driven mainly by artificial intelligence data centers — an important force pushing nuclear power's return.
来源：Dairyland电力合作社
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图片来源：图：威斯康星州 Point Beach 核电站。图片来源：Wikimedia Commons，Yodel2010 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0。 Image: Point Beach Nuclear Plant in Wisconsin. Source: Wikimedia Commons, photo by Yodel2010, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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