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The company won a license extension for its Arkansas Nuclear One Unit One plant in 2001, allowing the plant to operate until 2034. The company's license renewal applications for its Vermont Yankee and Pilgrim nuclear plants are pending, as of February 2007. [http://www.entergy.com/about_entergy/history.aspx]
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===Radioactive Water Leak in Lake Michigan===
In May 2013, 79 gallons of diluted radioactive water were released into Lake Michigan from Entergy-owned Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Covert Township, Michigan.<ref name="mlive1">Yvonne Zipp, [http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2013/05/water_leak_at_palisades_nuclea.html "Radioactive water was released into Lake Michigan before Palisades nuclear plant shutdown Sunday"], ''MLive.com'', May 6, 2013</ref> The water leaked from a 300,000-gallon storage tank down a drain and into a basin.<ref name="mlive1"/> The plant shut down after the tank was declared inoperable.
Prior to the Lake Michigan incident, a leak in the safety injection refueling water tank increased from one gallon a day to 90 gallons, surpassing the 38-gallon threshold set by the plant and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2012.<ref name="mlive1"/> After finding a small crack along a nozzle weld at the bottom of the tank, Palisades officials have decided to completely replace the tank bottom while the plant remains closed.<ref name="mlive2">Aaron Mueller, [http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2013/05/palisades_to_replace_bottom_of.html "Palisades Nuclear Power Plant to replace bottom of leaking tank, remains shut down"], May 20, 2013</ref> Leaks have been an ongoing issue at Palisades, which shut down four times in 2012 and twice so far in 2013.<ref name="mlive1"/>
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