Las Vegas Sun

April 18, 2024

Laughlin power plant blows its 41-story stack in planned implosion

A 41-story smoke stack at the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin is now just a pile of broken concrete.

Calm winds Friday allowed the implosion of the 500-foot structure. The stack kicked up a big plume of dust about a mile and a-half from the Laughlin casinos.

There's no damage reported and a spokesman for plant owner Southern California Edison tells The Associated Press the implosion went off as planned.

The stack implosion is part of the coal-fired power plant's decommissioning.

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