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Description
Construction on Maine Yankee atomic power plant began in the spring of 1968. At the time, it was the single largest industrial project ever undertaken in Maine.
The reactor went online in December 1972.
About This Item
- Title: Maine Yankee reactor pit construction, Wiscasset, 1968
- Creator: Maine Yankee Atomic Power Co.
- Creation Date: 1968
- Subject Date: 1968
- Location: Wiscasset, Lincoln County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 2115, Box 325/Public Affairs Atomic Power
- Collection: Central Maine Power Company collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Central Maine Power Company
- Construction--Maine--Wiscasset
- Nuclear power
- Nuclear power plants--Maine--Wiscasset
- Nuclear reactors--Maine--Wiscasset
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