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Power plant / Power plant

#1 North Anna Nuclear Generating Station

The North Anna Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant on a 1,075-acre (435   ha) site in Louisa County , Virginia , in the Mid-Atlantic United States . The site is operated by Dominion Generation company and is jointly owned by the Dominion Virginia Power corporation (88.4%) and by the

• ... licenses of these plants for an additional 20 years in 2003. 2011 VIRGINIA EARTHQUAKE At 1:51pm on august 23, 2011, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake occurred, centered south of Mineral, Virginia , eleven miles from ...
• ... e the broken unit, which was repaired. [24] [26] [27] [28] [29] Offsite power was restored later on august 23. [24] [30] Dominion also reported that the aftershocks did not affect the power plant. [24] Also on ...

#2 Surry Nuclear Power Plant

Surry Power Station is a nuclear power plant located in Surry County in southeastern Virginia , in the South Atlantic United States . The power station lies on an 840-acre (340   ha) site adjacent to the James River across from Jamestown , slightly upriver from Smithfield and Newport News . Surry is

• ... s cooling pumps and causing the backup diesel generators to activate without incident. [8] [9] • On august 23, 2011, an earthquake in central Virginia automatically shut down Dominion's North Anna reactors 11 m ...

#3 Zion Nuclear Power Station

Zion Nuclear Power Station was the third dual-reactor nuclear power plant in the Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) network and served Chicago and the northern quarter of Illinois . The plant was built in 1973, and the first unit started producing power in December 1973. [1] The second unit came online in

• ... tlement were to begin after this date. The estimated date for closure was December 31, 2026. [1] On august 23, 2010, it was announced that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the transfer of Exelon's (Co ...

#4 Fermi 1

Fermi 1 was the United States ' only demonstration-scale breeder reactor , built during the 1950s at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station on the western shore of Lake Erie south of Detroit, Michigan . It used the sodium-cooled fast reactor cycle, in which liquid sodium metal is used as the pr

• ... time; originally planned to start operations in 1959 or early 1960, Fermi 1 achieved criticality on 23 august 1963. While slowly increasing its power rating over the next two years, on 5 October 1966 it suffer ...
• ... began on 12 July 1963, [45] and the initial chain reaction was successfully achieved at 12:35 PM on 23 august 1963. The reactor was operated at low power levels through the next year as many minor issues were ...

#5 Indian Point Energy Center

Indian Point Energy Center ( I.P.E.C. ) is a three-unit nuclear power plant station located in Buchanan , just south of Peekskill , in Westchester County , New York . It sits on the east bank of the Hudson River , about 36 miles (58   km) north of Midtown Manhattan . The facility has permanently cea

• ... Units 2 and 3 both operated at 100% full power before, during, and after the Virginia earthquake on august 23, 2011. A thorough inspection of both units by plant personnel immediately following this event verif ...