Power Plants Nuclear Energy
Power Plants Nuclear Energy
This category is about specific nuclear power plants. It includes commercial and technical information about plant design, capacity and operation.A nuclear power plant uses the thermal energy produced in the reactor core to produce steam at high pressure. The steam drives a turbine, which spins a generator to produce electrical power.Most of the nuclear reactors worldwide use light water as coolant and neutron moderator; they are called Light Water Reactor (LWR). In some reactors however, the coolant fluid is heavy water, gas (carbon dioxide) or liquid metal (sodium, potassium).
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Oyster Creek - Located in Lacey Township, Ocean County, near the New Jersey Shore, with a single boiling water reactor which produces 636 megawatts.
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South Texas Project - Two unit plant along the Colorado River near Bay City, Texas, which produces 2,500 megawatts of power.
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Maine Yankee - Maine Yankee, Maine's only nuclear power plant, closed in 1997 and is now beginning the process of decommissioning. It is located on Montsweag Bay in Wiscasset, Maine.
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Diablo Canyon - Official company site about this 2,190 megawatt PWR nuclear facility on California's central coast.
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Palo Verde - Unofficial page regarding Arizona's Palo Verde nuclear generating station, written by a plant employee.
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Nuclear Street - Sharing information about news, jobs, careers, technology, and companies in the nuclear power industry. Provides an open forum for industry professionals to easily connect with nuclear plant personnel, suppliers, recruiters, or anybody in the industry.
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Calvert Cliffs - An introduction to Baltimore Gas and Electric's Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, which is located on Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County, Maryland.
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NukeWorker.com - A site by nuclear power plant workers, for nuclear power plant workers. Lots of information here that will be of interest to people in the industry.
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Browns Ferry - A few facts and figures about the Tennessee Valley Authority's nuclear plant in Athens, Alabama.
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Wolf Creek Generating Station - Official web site of this Westinghouse four-loop PWR located near Burlington, Kansas.
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Indian Point Energy Center - A source of information regarding the Indian Point nuclear facility in Buchanan, NY. Covers topics including plant safety, security, emergency planning and media information.
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Cooper Nuclear Station - A few key facts about the Cooper Nuclear Station which is located in Brownville, Nebraska.
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Big Rock Point - Facts about the decommissioning and land restoration of Consumers Energy's Big Rock Point nuclear plant which was shut down in 1997. The plant is located near Charlevoix, Michigan, USA.
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Columbia Generating Station - Information about Washington state's only operating commercial nuclear power plant. Energy Northwest's WNP-2 is located 12 miles north of Richland on the Department of Energy's Hanford site.
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Callaway - Very minimal information about this 1,126 megawatt nuclear power plant located near Fulton, Missouri.
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Nuclear Power Corporation Of India Limited - NPCIL is an undertaking of the government of India, and has several nuclear power plants under construction.
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Entergy Nuclear - Operates ten nuclear units at eight plant sites. Provide general information about the utilities, the company and the technology.
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Comanche Peak - A 2,300 megawatt nuclear plant located near Glen Rose, Texas, about 80 miles southwest of Dallas.
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Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant - RBMK-1500 water-cooled graphite-moderated power plant located in Lithuania. Includes plant data and background information.
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Nuclear Power Plant Simulation - A nuclear power plant simulator game written in Flash 4. Learn the basics of how a nuclear power plant works and try your hand at operating the simulator.
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San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station - San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) provides nearly 20 percent of the power to more than 15 million people in Southern California.
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Cook Energy Information Center - Providing information about the D.C. Cook Nuclear Power Plant along Lake Michigan's eastern shoreline.
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Nuclear Power Plant Demonstration - Interactive online demonstration: Play the role of a control-room operator at Sweden's Kärnobyl nuclear power plant, and try to keep the reactor running safely under various failure scenarios.
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Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant - Pictures of Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant located near San Luis Obispo, California. Unofficial site not sponsored by PG and E, featuring plant photos taken by a DCPP employee.
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How Stuff Works: Nuclear Power Plants - Illustrated tutorial about nuclear-powered electricity generation plants, with photos and animations.
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