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Genoa nuclear power plant heading into final stages of decommission
Meeting tonight on terminating
boiler water reactor license
The future of the former nuclear power plant at Genoa is the topic for a meeting tonight in La Crosse.
The plant, which shut down in 1987, is in its final stages of being decommissioned. At 6 p.m. tonight, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will discuss plans to terminate the license for the boiling water reactor. The project is expected to take about two years.
The plant was operated by Dairyland Cooperative for 20 years near the Genoa Lock and Dam in Vernon County.
The reactor itself was removed from Genoa nearly a decade ago, but spent nuclear fuel is still being stored on the site.
The reactor is one of 19 being decommissioned around the U.S., including one at Kewaunee, Wis., and the Three Mile Island reactor in Pennsylvania, which had a partial meltdown in 1979.
The meeting will take place at the Courtyard by Marriott.