Plant Profile

Location

The plant is located 10 miles southeast of Fulton, Missouri, in Callaway County; 25 miles northeast of Jefferson City, Missouri; 40 miles southeast of Columbia, Missouri; 100 miles west of St. Louis, Missouri; and 120 miles east of Kansas City, Missouri.
 

Owner

AmerenUE (formerly known as Union Electric Company) owns and operates Callaway Plant, the only power plant on the Ameren system that generates electricity by nuclear energy.
 

Plant Design

Standardized Nuclear Unit Power Plant System (SNUPPS), using a Westinghouse four-loop pressurized reactor and a General Electric turbine-generator.
 

Generating Capacity

1,190 megawatts (net)
 

Operational Date

December 19, 1984
 

Cost to Build

$3 billion
 

Workforce

More than 1,000 AmerenUE employees and contractors work at the plant with a total annual payroll of approximately $100 million.
 

Economic Benefit

In 2009, the plant accounted for $9.7 million of UE’s property taxes paid to Callaway County, with nearly $6 million of that amount going to local schools. In addition, assessed values based on UE’s investment in the plant resulted in about $20 million in additional taxes shared by the remaining 66 Missouri counties where the company has facilities.