Finding a new place to belong
More than 70 Fort Calhoun Station employees have found jobs elsewhere within OPPD, keeping skilled workers within the utility.
Ft. Calhoun Station
From crime fighting to chemistry
Blair native Jennifer Reyzlik, a chemist at Fort Calhoun Station, traded working homicides for handling test tubes at the plant.
Familiar feel to dry cask work
Fort Calhoun Station’s spent nuclear fuel is stored in concrete structures built to withstand extreme weather, aircraft impact.
Fort Calhoun Station: Classroom to the world
After Chernobyl disaster, Fort Calhoun Station became an international classroom for nuclear officials to learn best practices.
History of Fort Calhoun Station site
The land where the nuclear plant sat has an intriguing history that includes a bustling frontier town.
Defueling is over, but work continues at Fort Calhoun
After successfully and safely defueling the OPPD nuclear plant, personnel now shift to the long-term decommissioning work.
Video: Fort Calhoun defueling outage complete
Personnel removed the reactor vessel head and all nuclear fuel assemblies from the plant.
Nuclear fuel storage
As OPPD’s Fort Calhoun Station completes defueling and enters decommissioning, careful handling of the fuel is required.
Next steps begin at Fort Calhoun Station
With the nuclear plant now permanently offline, personnel are preparing to defuel the reactor, move toward the decommissioning.
FCS featured in coverage of energy crisis
OPPD leaders in the mid-1960s saw the value nuclear energy would bring in coming decades.