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Power plant / Power plant

#1 Three Gorges Dam

The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping , in Yiling District , Yichang , Hubei province, central China , downstream of the Three Gorges . The Three Gorges Dam has been the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity

• ... sing the upstream water level from 145.13 m (476.1 ft) on August 1, 2009, to 152.88 m (501.6 ft) on august 8, 2009. A full 4.27 km 3 (1.02 cu mi) of flood water was captured and the river flow was cut by as mu ...

#2 San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station ( SONGS ) is a permanently closed nuclear power plant located south of San Clemente , California , on the Pacific coast, in Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region IV . The plant was shut down in 2013 after replacement steam generators failed; it is currently i

• ... decommission [1] Construction began August 1964 [2] Commission date Unit 1: January 1, 1968 Unit 2: august 8, 1983 Unit 3: April 1, 1984 Decommission date Unit 1: November 30, 1992 Unit 2: Plan announced June ...

#3 SM-1

SM-1 (Stationary, Medium-size reactor, prototype #1) was a 2-megawatt nuclear reactor developed by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) and the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) as part of the US Army Nuclear Power Program (ANPP) in the mid-1950s. The compact "package" reactor was desig

• ... rs, turbine deck EXTERNAL SOURCES Special Features of Military Package Power Reactors Report issued 8 august 1956 by Oak Ridge National Laboratory Applied Nuclear Physics Division

#4 Croton Dam (Michigan)

Croton Dam (or Croton Hydroelectric Plant ) is an earth-filled embankment dam and powerplant complex on the Muskegon River in Croton Township , Newaygo County , Michigan . It was built in 1907 under the direction of William D. Fargo by the Grand Rapids - Muskegon Power Company, a predecessor of Cons

• ... d States Architect William D. Fargo NRHP reference No. 79001165 [3] Significant dates Added to NRHP august 8, 1979 Designated MSHS August 16, 1979 HISTORY The history of the Croton dam is intertwined with the ...

#5 Hinkley Point C nuclear power station

Hinkley Point C nuclear power station ( HPC ) is a two-unit, 3,200   MWe EPR nuclear power station under construction in Somerset , England. [4] Nuclear power station under construction in England Hinkley Point C nuclear power station (HPC) A 3D model of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station Cou

• ... carefully all the component parts of this project", including Britain's national security . [44] On 8 august 2016, Liu Xiaoming , China's ambassador to Britain, wrote that the UK risked major power shortages ...

#6 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

• ... no progress, Strauss responded that he was going to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for Fermi on 8 august . This was first time construction had been mentioned, the date having been selected, along with the ...