Maine Yankee brochure, Wiscasset, 1975
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Maine Historical Society
Nuclear Power
The last half of the twentieth century brought a new system of generation: nuclear power.
Nuclear-powered electric stations use the heat generated by reactors to create steam, which turns the turbines and generators.
Maine Yankee in Wiscasset in Lincoln County went into commercial operation on December 28, 1972 and stopped producing electricity in 1996. It was Maine’s only nuclear power plant.
Central Maine Power was one of twelve New England utility companies that partnered to form the Yankee Atomic Energy Company in 1954.
The first plant was completed in Rowe, Massachusetts, in 1961.
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