Marble Hill Nuclear Power Station

Some of the surrounding properties are still occupied so explorers beware.

Marble hill nuclear power station.

Tucked neatly away in the farmlands of nabb indiana lies the marble hill nuclear power plant. All work stopped in 1984 after 2 7 billion had been expended. In 1984 the public service company of indiana announced it was abandoning the half finished nuclear power plant on which 2 5 billion had already been spent. This is one of the more unique abandoned properties in indiana not only for its previous life s purpose but for the way it remains today.

Purdue university s reactor one was constructed in 1962 but its status as a private research reactor means it operates well below boiling conditions and is not a public power provider. Marble hill nuclear power station was an unfinished nuclear power plant in saluda township jefferson county near hanover indiana usa. The nearest weather station for both precipitation and temperature measurements is madison sewage pl which is approximately 9 miles away and has an elevation of 460 feet 281 feet lower than marble hill nuclear power station. Proposed by public service indiana psi later cinergy in 1973 the marble hill nuclear power generating plant had a 700 million price tag which had doubled by the time construction began in.

Nuclear power plant unfinished unbuilt abandoned nuclear power plant. Marble hill nuclear power plant is a now demolished never completed power generating facility in marble hill indiana. In 1984 the public service company of indiana announced it was abandoning the half finished nuclear power plant on which 2 5 billion had already been spent. The marble hill facility is the only public steam turbine nuclear power plant constructed in the state of indiana.