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Item 74760

Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station, Wiscasset, ca. 1972

Title: Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station, Wiscasset, ca. 1972

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1972

Location: Wiscasset

Media: Photograph

Item 74759

Maine Yankee reactor pit construction, Wiscasset, 1968

Title: Maine Yankee reactor pit construction, Wiscasset, 1968

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: 1968

Location: Wiscasset

Media: Photograph

Item 74758

Maine Yankee brochure, Wiscasset, 1975

Title: Maine Yankee brochure, Wiscasset, 1975

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: 1975

Location: Wiscasset

Media: Ink on paper

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Exhibit

Maine Yankee, Wiscasset, 1987

Nuclear Energy for Maine?

Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset generated electricity from 1972 until 1996. Activists concerned about the plant's safety led three unsuccessful referendum campaigns in the 1980s to shut it down.