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The Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant is an electricity-generating facility located in Red Wing, Minnesota along the Mississippi River,... adjacent to the Prairie Island Indian Community reservation. The nuclear power plant, which began operating in 1973, has two nuclear reactors manufactured by Westinghouse that produce a total 1,076 megawatts of power. Units 1 and 2 are licensed to operate through 2033 and 2034, respectively. The plant is owned by Northern States Power Company , a subsidiary of Xcel Energy, and is operated by Xcel Energy. It is one of two active nuclear facilities in Minnesota and has proven to be the most controversial due to the storage of nuclear waste in large steel casks on-site, an area which is a floodplain of the Mississippi. In April 2008, Xcel requested that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission renew the licenses of both reactors, extending them for an additional twenty years. The license renewals were approved in June 2011. The company has also requested the use of a similar storage system at its Monticello plant, which is currently licensed through 2030.
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Patrick John Flueger is an American actor, known for his lead role in the television series The 4400. Flueger was born in Red Wing, Minnesota, the... eldest of three siblings. He attended Red Wing High School. Flueger's first significant role was in the Disney film The Princess Diaries. Next followed several television appearances, including JAG, Law and Order SVU, and CSI: Miami. He then landed the role of Shawn Farrell in the USA Network series The 4400 . While still working on The 4400, Flueger got the role of Rusty in the film The World's Fastest Indian, starring Anthony Hopkins. It is interesting to note in The World's Fastest Indian, Flueger starred alongside Antony Starr. Fleuger would later get cast as the American version of the character Starr played in Outrageous Fortune, retitled in the U.S. version as Scoundrels, airing on ABC during the summer of 2010. He is slated to appear in several other movie roles, including Blowtorch Films' You Are Here, The Job based on the Shem Bitterman play, and Chris Moore's Kill Theory. In February 2010, Flueger was among those screen tested for the role of Captain America in the 2011 feature film.
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Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. Known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", the state's name comes from a Dakota word for "sky-tinted water". Those waters, together with forests, parks, and wilderness areas, offer residents and tourists a variety of outdoor recreational... opportunities. Minnesota is the 12th most extensive and the 21st most populous of the U.S. states. Nearly 60% of its residents live in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area , the center of transportation, business, industry and education and home to an internationally known arts community. The remainder of the state consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now cleared, farmed and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation. Minnesota is known for its relatively mixed social and political orientations, and has a high rate of civic participation and voter turnout.
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