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The Columbia Generating Station, a nuclear power station, is a General Electric boiling water reactor located on the Hanford Site, 12 miles (19 km) NW of Richland, Washington. Its site covers 1,089 acres (4.4 km²) of Benton County, Washington. NRC headquarters in Bethesda, MD. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (or NRC) is a United States government agency that was established by the Energy Reorganization Act in 1974, and was first opened January 19, 1975. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Area Ranked 6th - Total 113,998 sq. ...
The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, a nuclear power plant located in Wintersburg, Arizona, about 50 miles (80 km) west of central Phoenix, is currently the largest nuclear generation facility in the United States, producing over 30,000 gigawatt hours of electricity annually to serve approximately 4 million people. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Largest city Little Rock Little Rock Area Ranked 29th - Total 53,179 sq mi (137,732 km²) - Width 239 miles (385 km) - Length 261 miles (420 km) - % water 2. ...
Arkansas Nuclear One is a two unit pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant located in Russellville, Arkansas. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq. ...
The Diablo Canyon Power Plant has two Westinghouse-designed 4-Loop pressurized-water nuclear reactors operated by Pacific Gas & Electric. ...
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located on the Pacific coast in San Onofre, California. ...
Vallecitos Nuclear Center (Pleasanton, California) Owner: Pacific Gas and Electric Co. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 15th 82,277 mi²; 213,096 km² 211 mi; 340 km 400 mi; 645 km 0. ...
Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station, a nuclear power plant located in Burlington, Kansas, occupies 9,818 acres (40 km²) of the total 11,800 acres (48 km²) controlled by the owner. ...
Official language(s) English and French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans at last census; probably Baton Rouge since Hurricane Katrina Area Ranked 31st - Total 51,885 sq. ...
River Bend nuclear power station is a General Electric boiling water reactor on a 3,300 acre (13 km²) site in St. ...
The Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3, also known as Waterford 3, is a nuclear power plant located on a 3,000-acre (12-km²) up-river from Hahnville, Louisiana, in St. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Jackson Largest city Jackson Area Ranked 32nd - Total 48,434 sq. ...
Grand Gulf nuclear power station is a General Electric boiling water reactor. ...
Official language(s) none, English most common Capital Largest city Jefferson City Kansas City Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 21st 69,709 sq mi 180,693 km² 240 miles 385 km 300 miles 480 km 1. ...
This nuclear power plant is located on a 5,228 acre (21 km²) site in Callaway County, Missouri, near Fulton, Missouri. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Largest city Lincoln Omaha Area Ranked 16th - Total 77,421 sq mi (200,520 km²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 430 miles (690 km) - % water 0. ...
Nebraska Public Power Districts Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, Nebraska Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS) is a boiling water reactor (BWR) type nuclear power plant located on a 1,251 acre (5. ...
The Fort Calhoun Station is a nuclear power plant located on 660 acres (2. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Pierre Largest city Sioux Falls Area Ranked 17th - Total 77,163 sq. ...
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) Net Output: 59 MWe Decommissioned. ...
Official language(s) See: Languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area Ranked 2nd - Total 268,581 sq. ...
The Comanche Peak nuclear power plant is located in Somervell County, Texas. ...
The South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, also known as the South Texas Project (STP), is a nuclear power station located in Bay City, Texas, United States The STP occupies a 12,200 acre (49 km²) site on the Colorado River located about 90 miles (145 km) southwest of Houston. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area Ranked 18th - Total 71,342 sq. ...
A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors. ...
GE redirects here; for other uses, see GE (disambiguation). ...
A boiling water reactor (BWR) is a light water reactor design used in some nuclear power stations. ...
Hanford Site during the Manhattan Project. ...
Richland Police Station in foreground. ...
Benton County is a county located in the south central of the state of Washington. ...
Construction delays and cost over-runs for this reactor drew considerable public and media attention. Construction began in 1972, but more than a decade passed before it began generating power.
This plant is owned and operated by Energy Northwest, a consortium of Pacific Northwest public utilities. Energy Northwest's original name was the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS), deridingly known as "Whoops." This is because WPPSS was responsible for the largest municipal bond default in US history. The plant's original name was WNP-2, Washington Nuclear Power System. Several years ago, WPPSS changed its name to Energy Northwest, and the plant's name was changed from WNP-2 to Columbia Generating Station, presumably in an attempt to distance both the owners and the plant from the past.
With its troubled history behind it, however, the reactor has performed very well. Of the five commercial reactors originally planned for the State of Washington, this reactor was the only one completed.
The plant's only reactor is a General Electric Type 5 rated at 1157 MWe. The plant single handedly provides Washington with 9% of its electrical generation capacity. MWe and MWt are units for measuring the output of a power plant. ...
See also
List of nuclear reactors is a comprehensive annotated list of all the nuclear reactors of the world, sorted by country. ...
External links Coordinates: 46.46970161284371° N -119.3224477226751° E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ...
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