WELCH, Minn. – State, county and city agencies will work through protocols in a simulated emergency at the Prairie Island nuclear power plant in the Mississippi River on Tuesday. Involved are agencies in Dakota and Goodhue counties in Minnesota and Pierce County in Wisconsin. The plant, on Prairie Island, is five miles upriver from Red Wing, 22 miles from Lake City, 35 miles from Wabasha and 68 miles from Winona.
