United States of America Main article: Nuclear power in the United States See also: List of canceled nuclear plants in the United States Power Station Plants NRC Region Name Location Capacity (MWe) Commission Date Decommission Date Region I (Northeast) Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station Beaver County, Pennsylvania Unit 1: 970 Unit 2: 920 Unit 1: July 2, 1976 Unit 2: August 14, 1987 Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Generating Station Calvert Cliffs, Maryland Unit 1: 873 Unit 2: 863 Unit 1: 1975 Unit 2: 1977 Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant Haddam Neck, Connecticut 582 1968 2004 Ginna Nuclear Generating Station Ontario, New York 610 June 1, 1970 Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey 1,059 December 20, 1986 Indian Point Energy Center Buchanan, New York Unit 2: 1,020 Unit 3: 1,025 Unit 2: August 1, 1974 Unit 3: August 30, 1976 James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant Scriba, New York 838 July 1975 Limerick Nuclear Power Plant Limerick Township, Pennsylvania Unit 1: 1,134 Unit 2: 1,134 Unit 1: February 1, 1986 Unit 2: January 8, 1990 Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant Wiscasset, Maine 860 December 28, 1972[37] August 1, 1997[37] Millstone Nuclear Power Plant Waterford, Connecticut Unit 2: 882 Unit 3: 1,155 Unit 1: December 28, 1970 Unit 2: December 26, 1975 Unit 3: April 23, 1986 Unit 1: July 21, 1998 Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station Scriba, New York Unit 1: 621 Unit 2: 1,140 Unit 1: December 26, 1974 Unit 2: July 2, 1987 Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station Lacey Township, New Jersey 636 December 23, 1969 Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station Peach Bottom Township, Pennsylvania Unit 2: 1,112 Unit 3: 1,112 Unit 1: 1966 Unit 2: July 5, 1974 Unit 3: December 23, 1974 Unit 1: 1974 Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station Plymouth, Massachusetts 685 December 9, 1972 Salem Nuclear Power Plant Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey Unit 1: 1,174 Unit 2: 1,130 Unit 1: June 30, 1977 Unit 2: October 31, 1981 Saxton Nuclear Generating Station Bedford County, Pennsylvania 23.5 MWt November 1961 May 1972 Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant Seabrook, New Hampshire 1,194 March 15, 1990 Shippingport Atomic Power Station Beaver County, Pennsylvania 60 May 26, 1958 December 1989 Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant East Shoreham, New York, New York 820 August 1, 1986 May 1, 1989 Susquehanna Steam Electric Station Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Unit 1: 1,350 Unit 2: 1,350 Unit 1: November 12, 1982 Unit 2: June 27, 1984 Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 802 September 2, 1974 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant Vernon, Vermont 514[38] November 30, 1972 Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station Rowe, Massachusetts 185 1960 February 26, 1992 Region II (South) Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Burke County, Georgia Unit 1: 1,215 Unit 2: 1,215 Unit 1: June 1, 1987 Unit 2: May 20, 1989 Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station Hollywood, Alabama Unit 1: 1,100 Unit 2: 1,100 Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant Athens, Alabama Unit 1: 1,065 Unit 2: 1,113 Unit 3: 1,113 Unit 1: December 20, 1973 Unit 2: August 2, 1974 Unit 3: August 18, 1976 Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station Southport, North Carolina Unit 1: 938 Unit 2: 920 Unit 1: March 18, 1977[39] Unit 2: November 3, 1975[40] Carolinas–Virginia Tube Reactor Parr, South Carolina 17 December 18, 1963 January 10, 1967 Catawba Nuclear Station York, South Carolina Unit 1:1,129 Unit 2: 1,129 Unit 1: June 29, 1985 Unit 2: August 19, 1986 Crystal River 3 Nuclear Power Plant Crystal River, Florida 860 March 13, 1977 Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant Baxley, Georgia Unit 1: 924 Unit 2: 924 Unit 1: December 31, 1975 Unit 2: September 5, 1979 H. B. Robinson Nuclear Generating Station Darlington County, South Carolina 735 March 7, 1971 Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Generating Station Dothan, Alabama Unit 1: 900 Unit 2: 920 Unit 1: December 1, 1977 Unit 2: July 30, 1981 McGuire Nuclear Station Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Unit 1: 1,100 Unit 2: 1,100 Unit 1: December 1, 1981 Unit 2: March 1, 1984 North Anna Nuclear Generating Station Louisa County, Virginia Unit 1: 903 Unit 2: 972 Unit 1: June 6, 1978 Unit 2: December 14, 1980 Oconee Nuclear Station Oconee County, South Carolina Unit 1: 846 Unit 2: 846 Unit 3: 846 Unit 1: July 15, 1973 Unit 2: September 9, 1974 Unit 3: December 16, 1974 Sequoyah Nuclear Generating Station Hamilton County, Tennessee Unit 1: 1,148 Unit 2: 1,126 Unit 1: July 1, 1981 Unit 2: June 1, 1982 Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant New Hill, North Carolina 900 May 2, 1987 St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant Hutchinson Island, Florida Unit 1: 1,002 Unit 2: 1,002 Unit 1: March 1, 1976 Unit 2: June 10, 1983 Surry Nuclear Power Plant Surry County, Virginia Unit 1: 799 Unit 2: 799 Unit 1: December 22, 1972 Unit 2: May 1, 1973 Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station Homestead, Florida Unit 3: 693 Unit 4: 693 Unit 3: December 14, 1972 Unit 4: September 7, 1973 Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station Fairfield County, South Carolina 1,000 January 1, 1984 Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station Rhea County, Tennessee 1,121 May 27, 1996 Region III (Midwest) Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant Hayes Township, Michigan 67 March 29, 1963 August 29, 1997 Byron Nuclear Generating Station Ogle County, Illinois Unit 1: 1,168 Unit 2: 1,168 Unit 1: September 16, 1985 Unit 2: August 2, 1987 Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station Will County, Illinois Unit 1: 1,121 Unit 2: 1,121 Unit 1: July 29, 1988 Unit 2: October 17, 1988 Clinton Nuclear Generating Station Harp Township, Illinois 1,043 April 24, 1987 Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Carroll Township, Ohio 889 July 31, 1978 Donald C. Cook Nuclear Generating Station Lake Charter Township, Michigan Unit 1: 1,020 Unit 2: 1,090 Unit 1: August 27, 1975 Unit 2: July 1, 1978 Dresden Generating Station Goose Lake Township, Illinois Unit 1: 210 Unit 2: 867 Unit 3: 867 Unit 1: 1960 Unit 2: June 9, 1970 Unit 3: November 16, 1971 Unit 1: 1978 Duane Arnold Energy Center Fayette Township, Iowa 581 February 20, 1975 Elk River Station Elk River, Minnesota 22 July 1, 1964 February 1, 1968 Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station Frenchtown Charter Township, Michigan Unit 2: 1,098 Unit 1: 1957 Unit 2: January 23, 1988 Unit 1: September 22, 1972 Kewaunee Power Station Carlton, Wisconsin 556 June 16, 1974 Unit 1: June 2013 La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor Genoa, Wisconsin 50 November 7, 1969 April 30, 1987 LaSalle County Nuclear Generating Station Brookfield Township, Illinois Unit 1: 1,200 Unit 2: 1,200 Unit 1: January 1, 1984 Unit 2: October 19, 1984 Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant Saluda Township, Indiana Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant Monticello, Minnesota 610 June 30, 1971 Palisades Nuclear Generating Station Covert Township, Michigan 800 December 31, 1971 Perry Nuclear Generating Station North Perry, Ohio 1,231 November 18, 1987 Piqua Nuclear Generating Station Spring Creek Township, Ohio 12.5 1963 1966 Point Beach Nuclear Plant Two Creeks, Wisconsin Unit 1: 510 Unit 2: 516 Unit 1: December 21, 1970 Unit 2: October 1, 1972 Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant Red Wing, Minnesota Unit 1: 548 Unit 2: 548 Unit 1: December 16, 1973 Unit 2: December 21, 1974 Quad Cities Nuclear Generating Station Cordova Township, Illinois Unit 1: 912 Unit 2: 912 Unit 1: February 18, 1973 Unit 2: March 10, 1973 Zion Nuclear Power Station Zion, Illinois Unit 1: 1,040 Unit 2: 1,040 Unit 1: June, 1973 Unit 2: December, 1973 January, 1998 Region IV (West) Arkansas Nuclear One Russellville, Arkansas Unit 1: 846 Unit 2: 930 Unit 1: May 21, 1974 Unit 2: September 1, 1978 Callaway Nuclear Generating Station Auxvasse Township, Missouri 1,300 December 19, 1984 Columbia Generating Station Benton County, Washington 1,170 December 13, 1984 Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant Somervell County, Texas Unit 1: 1084 Unit 2: 1124 Unit 1: April 17, 1990 Unit 2: April 6, 1993 Cooper Nuclear Station Nemaha County, Nebraska 770 July 1, 1974 Diablo Canyon Power Plant Avila Beach, California Unit 1: 1,122 Unit 2: 1,118 Unit 1: May 7, 1985 Unit 2: March 13, 1986 Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station Washington County, Nebraska 476 August 9, 1973 Fort St. Vrain Generating Station Platteville, Colorado 330 July 1, 1979 August 29, 1989 Grand Gulf Nuclear Generating Station Claiborne County, Mississippi 1,500 July 1, 1985 Hallam Nuclear Generating Station Hallam, Nebraska 75 1963 1969 N-Reactor Hanford Site, Washington 4,000 MWt 1964 December 1986 Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant Eureka, California 63 August 1963 Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Tonopah, Arizona Unit 1: 1,447 Unit 2: 1,447 Unit 3: 1,447 Unit 1: 1986 Unit 2: 1986 Unit 3: 1988 Pathfinder Nuclear Generating Station Minnehaha County, South Dakota 59 July 1966 October 1967 Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station Herald, California 913 April 17, 1975 23 October 2009 River Bend Nuclear Generating Station West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana 978 June 16, 1986 San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station San Diego County, California Unit 2: 1,172 Unit 3: 1,178 Unit 1: January 1, 1968 Unit 2: August 8, 1983 Unit 3: April 1, 1984 Unit 1: November 30, 1992 Unit 2: June 7, 2013 Unit 3: June 7, 2013 Sodium Reactor Experiment Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Simi Valley, California 6.5 July 12, 1957 February 15, 1964 South Texas Nuclear Generating Station Matagorda County, Texas Unit 1: 1,250 Unit 2: 1,250 Unit 1: August 25, 1988 Unit 2: June 19, 1989 Trojan Nuclear Power Plant Columbia County, Oregon 1,130 May 20, 1976 1992 Missouri University of Science and Technology Nuclear Reactor Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Missouri 200 kWt 1961 Vallecitos Nuclear Center Alameda County, California October 1957 December 1963 Waterford Nuclear Generating Station Killona, Louisiana 1,218 September 24, 1985 Wolf Creek Generating Station Hampden Township, Kansas 1,250 September 3, 1985 Plutonium production reactors Hanford Site, Washington B-Reactor (Pile) - Preserved as a museum F-Reactor (Pile) - Cocooned D-Reactor (Pile) - Cocooned H-Reactor (Pile) - Being cocooned DR-Reactor (Pile) - Cocooned C-Reactor (Pile) - Cocooned KE-Reactor (Pile) - Being cocooned KW-Reactor (Pile) - Being cocooned N-Reactor - Being cocooned Savannah River Site, South Carolina R-Reactor (Heavy Water) - S&M (Surveillance and Maintenance) mode P-Reactor (Heavy Water) - S&M mode L-Reactor (Heavy Water) - S&M mode K-Reactor (Heavy Water) - S&M mode C-Reactor (Heavy Water) - S&M mode Army Nuclear Power Program Main article: Army Nuclear Power Program SM-1 SM-1A PM-2A PM-1 PM-3A MH-1A SL-1 ML-1 United States Naval reactors Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory Prototype S8G Reactor S5W prototype reactor D1G prototype (decommissioned) S3G prototype (decommissioned), Ballston Spa, New York Nuclear Power Training Unit, Charleston, South Carolina USS Daniel Webster (SSBN 626) USS Sam Rayburn (SSBN 635) Main article: List of United States Naval reactors Research reactors Arkansas-Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor, Arkansas SEFOR - Shut down Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois (and Idaho) ALPR; see also SL-1/ALPR - Facility was turned over to the U.S. Army (1958), was destroyed in an accident (1961)[41] AFSR - Shut down[42] BORAX-I - intentionally exploded[43] BORAX-II - Shut down[44] BORAX-III - Shut down[45] BORAX-IV - Shut down[46] BORAX-V - Shut down (1964)[47] CP-1 - Chicago Pile 1 (Relocated and renamed as Chicago Pile 2 in 1943) - Shut down,[48][49] CP-3 - Chicago Pile 3 - Shut down[50] CP-5 - Chicago Pile 5 - Shut down (1979)[51] EBR-I - Experimental Breeder Reactor I (originally CP-4) - Shut down[52] EBR-II - Experimental Breeder Reactor II - Shut down[53] EBWR - Experimental Boiling Water Reactor - Shut down[54] LMFBR - Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor - Shut down JANUS reactor - Shut down (1992)[55] JUGGERNAUT - Shut down[56] IFR - Integral Fast Reactor - Never operated[57][58] MTR - Shut down[59] SL-1/ALPR - Stationary Low Power Plant - Shut down[41] S1W/STR - Shut down[60] TREAT - Shut down[61] ZPPR - Zero Power Physics Reactor (formerly Zero Power Plutonium Reactor) - Standby,[62][63] ZPR-III - Shut down[64] ZPR-6 - Shut down in 1982[65] ZPR-7 - Shut down[66] ZPR-9 - Shut down in 1981[67] Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York High Flux Beam Reactor - Shut down (1999) Medical Research Reactor - Shut down (2000) Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor - Shut down (1968) Hanford Site, Washington Fast Flux Test Facility - currently in cold standby Core drilled Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho (these reactors were due to a number of US government contractors at the National Reactor Testing Station, and the reactors or their sites were taken over by INL when it was created in 2005)[68] ARMF-I - Shut down AMRF-II - Shut down ATR - Operating ATRC - Operating CRCE - Shut down CFRMF - Shut down CET - Shut down Experimental Test Reactor - Shut down ETRC - Shut down EBOR - Never operated ECOR - Never operated 710 - Shut down GCRE - Gas Cooled Reactor Experiment - shut down HTRE-1 - Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment 1 - shut down HTRE-2 - Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment 2 - shut down HTRE-3 - Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment 3 - shut down 603-A - Shut down HOTCE - Shut down A1W-A - Shut down A1W-B - Shut down LOFT - Shut down ML-1 - Mobil Low Power Plant - shut down S5G - Shut down NRAD - Operating FRAN - Shut down OMRE - Shut down PBF - Shut down RMF - Shut down SUSIE - Operating SPERT-I - Shut down SPERT-II - Shut down SPERT-III - Shut down SPERT-IV - Shut down SCRCE - Shut down SNAPTRAN-1 - Shut down SNAPTRAN-2 - Shut down SNAPTRAN-3 - Shut down THRITS - Shut down Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico UHTREX - Shut down Omega West - Shut down Clementine - Shut down Nevada Test Site, Nevada BREN Tower Demonstration Using Flattop Fission (DUFF) - Operated 2012-2012 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee X-10 Graphite Reactor - Shut down, operated 1943-1963 Homogeneous Reactor Experiment (HRE) - Shut down, operated 1952-1954 Homogeneous Reactor Test (HRT) - Shut down, operated 1957-1961 Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) - Shut down, operated 1954-1955 Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) - Shut down, operated 1965-1969 Health Physics Research Reactor (HPRR) - Shut down, operated 1963-1987 Low-Intensity Test Reactor (LITR)- Shut down, operated 1950-1968 Bulk Shielding Reactor (BSR) - Shut down, operated 1950-1987 Geneva Conference Reactor - Shut down, operated 1955 Tower Shielding Reactor-I (TSR-I) - Shut down, operated 1954-1958 Tower Shielding Reactor-II (TSR-II) - Shut down, operated 1958-1982 Oak Ridge Research Reactor (ORR) - Shut down, operated 1958-1987 High Flux Isotope Reactor - Operating, started 1965 Pool Critical Assembly - Shut down, operated 1958 - 1987 Experimental Gas Cooled Reactor (EGCR) - Constructed, but never operated (project canceled in 1966) Savannah River Site, South Carolina HWCTR - Heavy Water Components Test Reactor - Partial decommissioning Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Simi Hills California Sodium Reactor Experiment (Accident 1959, closed 1964) SNAP-10A (Shut down 1965, presently orbiting) Civilian Research and Test Reactors Licensed To Operate Operator Location Reactor Power Operational Aerotest Operations Inc. San Ramon, California TRIGA Mark I 250 kW 1965 - Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute Bethesda, Maryland TRIGA Mark F 1 MW 1962 - Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO AGN-201 #109 100 mW 1957[69] - 1976[70] Dow Chemical Company Midland, Michigan TRIGA Mark I 300 kW 1967 - General Electric Company Sunol, California "Nuclear Test" 100 kW 1957 - Idaho State University Pocatello, Idaho AGN-201 #103 50 W 1967 - Iowa State University Ames, Iowa experimental, instructional 3 kW 1959-1998[71] Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas TRIGA Mark II 1250 kW 1962 - Kodak[72][73] Rochester, New York Californium Neutron Flux Multiplier 5.8 W 1975 - 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts Tank Type HWR Reflected (MITR-II) 6 MW 1958 - Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, Missouri Pool (MSTR) 200 kW 1961 - National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Maryland Tank Type, Heavy Water Moderated 20 MW 1967 - North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina Pulstar 1 MW 1973 - Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Pool (modified Lockheed) [5] 500 kW 1961 - Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon TRIGA Mark II (OSTR) 1.1 MW 1967 - Penn State University University Park, Pennsylvania TRIGA BNR Reactor 1.1 MW 1955 - Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Lockheed (PUR-1) 1 kW 1962 - Reed College Portland, Oregon TRIGA Mark I (RRR) 250 kW 1968 - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York Reactor Critical Facility[74][75] 1 W 1965- Rhode Island Atomic Energy Commission/University of Rhode Island Narragansett, Rhode Island GE Pool 2 MW 1964 - Texas A&M University College Station, TX AGN-201M #106 - TRIGA Mark I (two reactors) 5 W, 1 MW 1962 - University of Arizona Tucson, AZ TRIGA Mark I 110 kW 1958–2010 University of California-Davis Sacramento, California TRIGA Mark II, McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center 2.3 MW August 13, 1998 - University of California, Irvine Irvine, California TRIGA Mark I 250 kW 1969 - University of Florida Gainesville, Florida Argonaut (UFTR) 100 kW 1959 - University of Maryland, College Park College Park, Maryland TRIGA Mark I 250 kW 1960 - University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell, Massachusetts Pool (UMLRR) 1 MW 1975 - University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri General Electric tank type UMRR 10 MW 1966 - University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico AGN-201M $112 1966 - University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas TRIGA Mark II 1.1 MW 1992 - University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah TRIGA Mark I 100 kW 1975 - University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, Wisconsin TRIGA Mark I 1 MW 1961 - U.S. Geological Survey Denver, Colorado TRIGA Mark I 1 MW 1969 - U.S. Veterans Administration Omaha, Nebraska TRIGA Mark I 20 kW 1959–2001 Washington State University Pullman, Washington TRIGA Conversion (WSUR) 1 MW March 7, 1961 - Under Decommission Orders or License Amendments (These research and test reactors are authorized to decontaminate and dismantle their facility to prepare for final survey and license termination.) General Atomics, San Diego, California (two reactors) National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Sandusky, Ohio (two reactors) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan With Possession-Only Licenses (These research and test reactors are not authorized to operate the reactor, only to possess the nuclear material on-hand. They are permanently shut down.) General Electric Company, Sunol, California (two research and test reactors, one power reactor) Nuclear Ship Savannah, James River Reserve Fleet, Virginia (one power reactor) University at Buffalo (In use until 1994) U.S. Veterans Administration, Omaha, NE Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA External links DoE list ICJT list—includes the defunct
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