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April 3, 2015 By SEO Admin

Inside Houston's nearest nuclear plant

Trekking about 90 miles southwest of Houston brings you to Texas’ first nuclear plant — finished in 1989 — with plans slowly moving forward to double its 2,700 megawatts of electricity output.

The South Texas Project Electric Generating Station is run by the STP Nuclear Operating Co., which is 44 percent owned by New Jersey- and Houston-based NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE: NRG). The rest of it is owned by major Texas municipalities. The STP plant provides energy to about two million Texas homes.

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