The Bailly Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant project to be located near the
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in
Porter County, Indiana
Porter County is a county (United States), county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2020, the population was 173,215, making it the 10th most populous county in Indiana. The county seat is Valparaiso, Indiana, Valparaiso. The county is part of ...
, United States. The project was proposed by the
Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) in 1967; however, it was cancelled in 1981.
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It was to have capacity one 644 MW boiling water reactor and it was expected to cost $1.8 billion. Construction started on January 1, 1974.Bailly on the PRIS of the IAEA]
Construction was opposed by the "Concerned Citizens Against the Bailly Nuclear Site", an interest group established in 1972, and the United Steelworkers of America District 31, and the Bailley Alliance. They opposed the project legally and also through the procedures of the
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other relevant government agencies. The group broke up in 1982 after cancellation of the project.
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See also
*Anti-nuclear movement in the United States
The anti-nuclear movement in the United States consists of more than 80 anti-nuclear groups that oppose nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and/or uranium mining. These have included the Abalone Alliance, Citizens Awareness Network, Clamshell All ...
*List of books about nuclear issues
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, bu ...
* Nuclear power in the United States
* Canceled nuclear plants in the United States
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Cancelled nuclear power stations in the United States
Unfinished nuclear reactors
Nuclear power plants in Indiana