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LaSalle Generating Station

  • Unit 1 began operation

  • Unit 2 began operation

  • Emergency

    On this date a site emergency was called at 12:28 AM. this was the first SAE called in the US since 1991. It was indicated that 3 of the 185 control rods were not fully inserted triggerng the emegency. The plants instruments indicated that only 1 control rod was inserted wrong not 3. The emergency ended at 4:27 AM with no damage or release of radioactivity.