On Mississippi River. Sixty miles upriver from Winona. Operated by Xcel Energy. Two pressurized water nuclear reactors generate 1,076 megawatts of electricity.
Unanswered questions: Toys? Spies? Weapons?
RED WING, Minn. – Security guards at the nuclear power plant called police that drones were swirling and hovering at the plant. It was hard to tell how many because they kept dipping from view and reappearing, said the guards, who counted four, maybe five. This was about 6:30 p.m. When police arrived from Red Wing 12 miles away, two drones still around but then vanished. Drones were also reported, perhaps some of the same ones, at Lock and Dam Number 3 on the nearby on theMississippi River. Whether the drones were camera-equipped or weaponized was not established. Nor was it established from where they were launched and controlled.