NRC regions and location of nuclear reactors  Feb 2005 opinion poll regarding nuclear power in the USA. Blue represents people in favor of nuclear power Gray represents undecided Yellow represents opposed to nuclear power As of 2007 in the United States, there are 104 (69 pressurized water reactors and 35 boiling water reactors) commercial nuclear generating units licensed to operate, producing a total of 97,400 megawatts (electric), which is approximately 20% of the nation's total electric energy consumption. The United States is the world's largest supplier of commercial nuclear power. List of nuclear reactors is a comprehensive annotated list of all the nuclear reactors of the world, sorted by country. ...
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List of nuclear reactors is a comprehensive annotated list of all the nuclear reactors of the world, sorted by country. ...
Pressurized water reactors (PWRs) (also VVER if of Russian design) are generation II nuclear power reactors that use ordinary water under high pressure as coolant and neutron moderator. ...
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History
President Dwight D. Eisenhower opened the Shippingport power plant atomic power station on May 26, 1958 as part of his Atoms for Peace program. Shippingport was the first commercial nuclear power plant built in the United States. Dwight David Eisenhower, born David Dwight Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was a five-star General in the United States Army and U.S. politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961). ...
The Shippingport reactor was the first full-scale nuclear power plant in the United States. ...
A nuclear power station. ...
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Atoms for Peace was the title of a speech delivered by Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly in New York City on December 8, 1953. ...
The Three Mile Island accident has been the most serious accident experienced by the U.S. nuclear industry. For details on this station, see Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station. ...
A large number of plants have recently received 20-year extensions to their licensed lifetimes.
Several US nuclear power plants closed well before their design lifetimes, including Rancho Seco in 1989 in California, San Onofre Unit 1 in 1992 in California (units 2 and 3 are still operating), Zion in 1998 in Illinois and Trojan in 1992 in Oregon. Humboldt Bay in California closed in 1976, 13 years after geologists discovered it was built on a fault (the Little Salmon Fault). Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant never operated commercially as an authorized Emergency Evacuation Plan could not be agreed on after the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents. The Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station is a decommissioned nuclear power plant built by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in Clay Station, California. ...
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) is a nuclear power plant located on the Pacific coast in San Onofre, California. ...
Zion Station is the third dual-reactor station in the Commonwealth Edison network and serves Chicago and the northern one-fourth of Illinois. ...
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Shoreham Nuclear, before going off-line The Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant was a General Electric boiling water reactor located in Wading River, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, 60 miles east of Manhattan. ...
The nuclear power plant at Chernobyl prior to the completion of the sarcophagus. ...
Resurgence In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in nuclear power in the US. This has been facilitated in part by the federal government with the Nuclear Power 2010 Program, which coordinates efforts for building new nuclear power plants,[1] and the Energy Policy Act which makes provisions for nuclear and oil industries. [2][3] The Nuclear Power 2010 Program was unveiled by the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Energy on February 14, 2002 as one means towards addressing the expected need for new power plants. ...
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As of 2005, no nuclear plant had been ordered without subsequent cancellation for over twenty years. However, on September 22, 2005 it was announced that two sites had been selected to receive new power reactors (exclusive of the new power reactor scheduled for Idaho National Laboratory) and two other utilities have plans for new reactors. [4] There has also been an application for an early site permit at Exelon's Clinton Nuclear in Clinton, Illinois to install another reactor as well as a reactor restart at the Tennessee Valley Authority Browns Ferry nuclear station. [5] 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is an 890 square mile (2,300 km²) complex located in the Idaho desert between the towns of Arco and Idaho Falls. ...
Exelon Corporation is a giant electricity generating and distributing company headquartered in Chicago. ...
The Clinton Power Station and is 5,000-acre cooling reservoir are located on a 14000-acre site near Clinton, Illinois, USA. Clintons final construction cost exceeded $4 billion, leading the plant to produce some of the most expensive power in the Midwest. ...
Clinton is a city in DeWitt County, Illinois, United States. ...
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The Browns Ferry nuclear power plant is located on the Tennessee River near Decatur, Alabama. ...
On September 25, 2007 South Texas Project filed the application for a Combined Construction and Operating License (COL). Two new GE-Hitachi ABWRs will be built adjacent to the existing PWRs.[6] This is the first application for a new nuclear plant in the US for nearly 30 years.[citation needed] This was followed in October, 2007 by TVA and NuStart filing for a COL for two Westinghouse AP1000s to be built at Bellefonte in Hollywood, Alabama. [7] The Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) is an improved design of boiling water reactor. ...
A pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of nuclear power reactor that uses ordinary (light) water for both coolant and for neutron moderator. ...
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Westinghouse Electric Company is a nuclear reactor technology business company, providing nuclear services, power plants, nuclear fuel, and fuel handling equipment to utilities and governments in the United States, Europe, and Asia. ...
The AP1000 is a proposed passively safe pressurized water reactor designed and manufactured by Westinghouse Electric Company for nuclear power plants. ...
The Tennessee Valley Authoritys unfinished Bellefonte nuclear power plant is located in Hollywood, Alabama, abandoned in 1988 after a $6 billion investment. ...
In 2007, the Nuclear Energy Institute even started an advertising campaign to increase public support of nuclear power.[8] The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) is a nuclear industry lobbying group. ...
As of April 2008, the NRC is expecting 23 COL applications for a total of 34 new plants.[9] NRC headquarters in Rockville, 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. ...
However, MidAmerican Energy Company has decided to "end its pursuit of a nuclear power plant in Payette County, Idaho."[10] MidAmerican cited cost as the primary factor in their decision. MidAmerican Energy Company is an energy company in the U.S. state of Iowa. ...
In April 2008 Southern Company signed an engineering and procurement contract with Westinghouse and Shaw Group for two AP1000s to be built at Vogtle in Georgia.[11] This is the first construction contract for a new nuclear power plant in the US to be signed since 1978. Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is a US electricity corporation. ...
Westinghouse Electric Company is a nuclear reactor technology business company, providing nuclear services, power plants, nuclear fuel, and fuel handling equipment to utilities and governments in the United States, Europe, and Asia. ...
The Shaw Group is a Fortune 500[1] corporation headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ...
The AP1000 is a proposed passively safe pressurized water reactor designed and manufactured by Westinghouse Electric Company for nuclear power plants. ...
The Vogtle nuclear power plant is located in Burke County, Georgia, near Augusta, Georgia. ...
The prospect of a nuclear renaissance has also revived debate about the nuclear waste issue. It is widely agreed that burying spent nuclear fuel deep underground is the best option for waste disposal, but no such long-term waste repositories yet exist.[12][13][14]
Safety -
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Regulation Regulation of nuclear power plants in the United States is done by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which divides the nation into 4 administrative divisions. NRC headquarters in Rockville, 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. ...
Fuel Cycle
Uranium Mining -
The United States has the 4th greatest uranium reserves in the world. Domestic production increased until 1980, after which it declined sharply due to low uranium prices. After 2001, however, Uranium prices steadily increased, which prompted increased production and revived mines. Most uranium ore in the United States comes from deposits in sandstone, which tend to be of lower grade than those of Australia and Canada. ...
Uranium enrichment The United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) performs all enrichment activities for U.S. commercial nuclear plants, using 11.3 million SWUs per year at its Paducah, Kentucky site. The USEC plant still uses gaseous diffusion enrichment, which has now been proved to be inferior to centrifuge enrichment. However, the capital cost of such a plant is so high that the plant will go through a few more years of operation before being replaced by a modern centrifuge plant. The United States Enrichment Corporation, a subsidiary of USEC Inc. ...
These pie-graphs showing the relative proportions of uranium-238 (blue) and uranium-235 (red) at different levels of enrichment. ...
Paducah is a city in McCracken County, Kentucky at the confluence of the Tennessee River and the Ohio River. ...
Currently, demonstration activities are underway at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a future centrifugal enrichment plant. The new plant will be called the American Centrifuge Plant, which has an estimate cost of 2.3 billion USD.[15] A combination of federal, state and private funds is providing $300 million for the construction of 13 facilities on ORNLs new main campus. ...
Reprocessing US policy that forbid reprocessing in the country was drafted under the Carter administration. The official statement was "We will defer indefinitely the commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium produced in the U.S. nuclear power programs."[16] However, since the GNEP was proposed, several reprocessing proposals have also surfaced. For other persons named Jimmy Carter, see Jimmy Carter (disambiguation). ...
The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, announced by U.S. Department of Energy secretary Samuel Bodman on February 6, 2006, is a plan to form an international partnership to see spent nuclear fuel reprocessed in a way that renders the plutonium in it usable for nuclear fuel but not for nuclear...
Disposal - See also: Yucca Mountain
In the United States, all power produced by nuclear energy pays a tax of 0.1 cents per kWh sold, in exchange for which the United States government takes responsibility for the high level nuclear waste. This tax has been collected since the beginning of the industry, but action by the government towards creation of a national geological repository was not taken until the 1990s and 2000s since all spent fuel is immediately stored in the spent fuel pools on site. Yucca Mountain Yucca Mountain is a ridge line in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Nevada. ...
Recently, as plants continue to age, many of these pools have come near capacity, prompting creation of dry cask storage facilities as well. Several lawsuits between utilities and the government have also transpired over the cost of these facilities, because by law the government is required to foot the bill for actions that go beyond the spent fuel pool.
Yucca became the front runner for the selection of a site for a national repository and then was decided to be the site by the government. Funding has been increasing in recent years and research is ongoing, but a date for receiving spent fuel is still a number of years off and the plan remains a political battleground.
Nuclear Organizations
Fuel Vendors The following companies are those which have active Nuclear fuel fabrication facilities in the United States.[17] These are all light water fuel fabrication facilities because only LWRs are operating in the US. The US currently has no MOX fuel fabrication facilities, though Duke Energy has expressed intent of building one of a relatively small capacity.[18] Nuclear Fuel Process A graph comparing nucleon number against binding energy Nuclear fuel is any material that can be consumed to derive nuclear energy, by analogy to chemical fuel that is burned to derive energy. ...
Mixed oxide, or MOX fuel, is a blend of plutonium and natural uranium or depleted uranium which behaves similarly (though not identically) to the enriched uranium feed for which most nuclear reactors were designed. ...
Corporate Headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina Duke Energy NYSE: DUK, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is an energy company with assets in the United States (primarily North and South Carolina), Canada and Latin America. ...
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- Areva (formerly Areva NP) runs fabrication facilities in Lynchburg, Virginia and Richland, Washington. It also has a Generation III+ plant design, the Evolutionary Power Reactor, which it plans to market in the US.[2]
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- Westinghouse operates a fuel fabrication facility in Charleston, South Carolina, which processes 1,600 metric tons Uranium (MTU) per year. It previously operated a nuclear fuel plant in Hematite, Missouri but has since closed it down.
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- GE pioneered the BWR technology that has become widely used throughout the world. It formed the Global Nuclear Fuel joint venture in 1999 with Hitachi and Toshiba and later restructured into GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy. It operates the fuel fabrication facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, with a capacity of 1,200 MTU per year.
AREVA (Euronext: CEI) is a France-based multinational industrial conglomerate that deals in energy, especially in nuclear power. ...
Lynchburg is an independent city located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...
Richland Police Station in foreground. ...
Westinghouse Electric Company is a nuclear reactor technology business company, providing nuclear services, power plants, nuclear fuel, and fuel handling equipment to utilities and governments in the United States, Europe, and Asia. ...
Nickname: Motto: Aedes Mores Juraque Curat (She cares for her temples, customs, and rights) Location of Charleston in South Carolina. ...
Hematite is an unincorporated community in eastern Jefferson County, Missouri. ...
GE redirects here. ...
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Hitachi may refer to: Hitachi (train) trains in Melbourne, Australia. ...
Toshiba Corporations headquarters (Center) in Hamamatsucho, Tokyo Toshiba Corporation sales by division for year ending March 31, 2005 Toshiba Corporation ) (TYO: 6502 ) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. ...
Wilmington is a city in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. ...
Industry and Academic The American Nuclear Society (ANS) scientific and educational organization that has academic and industry members. The organization publishes a large amount of literature on nuclear technology in several journals. The ANS also has some offshoot organizations such as North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NA-YGN). The American Nuclear Society is a non-profit, educational organization established by a group of individuals who recognized the need to bring together professional activities within the fields of nuclear science and technology. ...
The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) is an industry group whose activities include lobbying, experience sharing between companies and plants, and provides data on the industry to a number of outfits. The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) is a nuclear industry lobbying group. ...
References - ^ "The Daily Sentinel." Commission, City support NuStart. Retrieved on December 1, 2006
- ^ "US energy bill favors new build reactors, new technology", Nuclear Engineering International, 12 August 2005. Retrieved on 2007-12-26.
- ^ Michael Grunwald and Juliet Eilperin. "Energy Bill Raises Fears About Pollution, Fraud Critics Point to Perks for Industry", Washington Post, July 30, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-12-26.
- ^ Press Release."NuStart Selects Grand Gulf, Bellefonte For Advanced Nuclear Plant Licenses." NuStart Energy. Retrieved on December 1, 2006.
- ^ Exelon Generation Company, LLC Application for the Clinton ESP Site." Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Retrieved on December 1, 2006.
- ^ South Texas Project Files for COL (url). World Nuclear News. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
- ^ NuStart/TVA Submit 'Forward Looking' Reference Application (PDF). PR Newswire. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
- ^ television ad on Google Video
- ^ [http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-licensing/new-licensing-files/expected-new-rx-applications.pdf ]
- ^ MidAmerican drops Idaho nuclear project due to cost
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- ^ A Nuclear Power Renaissance?
- ^ Nuclear Fuel Recycling: More Trouble Than It's Worth
- ^ Nuclear power rebirth revives waste debate
- ^ About USEC - The American Centrifuge
- ^ http://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RS22542.pdf
- ^ World Nuclear Fuel Facilities
- ^ Duke Power Granted License Amendment By Nuclear Regulatory Commission To Use Mox Fuel - Duke Energy
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See also
 | Energy Portal | - Bilateral nuclear power agreements
- United States-Japan Joint Nuclear Energy Action Plan
- United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act
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Atoms for Peace was the title of a speech delivered by Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly in New York City on December 8, 1953. ...
List of nuclear reactors is a comprehensive annotated list of all the nuclear reactors of the world, sorted by country. ...
The Nuclear Power 2010 Program was unveiled by the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Energy on February 14, 2002 as one means towards addressing the expected need for new power plants. ...
This article is about applications of nuclear fission reactors as power sources. ...
Nuclear energy policy is national and international policy concerning some or all aspects of nuclear energy, such as mining for nuclear fuel, generating electricity by nuclear power, enriching and storing spent nuclear fuel and nuclear fuel reprocessing. ...
The Energy policy of the United States is determined by federal, state and local public entities, which address issues of energy production, distribution and consumption. ...
US President George W. Bush and Indias Prime Minister Manmohan Singh exchange handshakes in New Delhi on March 2, 2006 The United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act of 2006 is the legal framework for a bilateral pact between the United States and India under which the U...
External links - Greennature.com
- World-nuclear.org
- U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Statistical Information
- Uranium information center: Nuclear energy in the world
- The Nuclear Energy Institute: The policy organization of the nuclear energy and technologies industry
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Nuclear energy policy is national and international policy concerning some or all aspects of nuclear energy, such as mining for nuclear fuel, generating electricity by nuclear power, enriching and storing spent nuclear fuel and nuclear fuel reprocessing. ...
The United States is the worlds largest energy consumer in terms of total use, and ranks 7th on a per-capita basis. ...
The Energy policy of the United States is determined by federal, state and local public entities, which address issues of energy production, distribution and consumption. ...
The Energy Policy Act is a United States government act. ...
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Seal of the United States Department of Energy The United States Secretary of Energy, the head of the United States Department of Energy, is concerned with The Secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet. ...
Map of available wind power over the United States. ...
Vestas wind turbine in Lubbock, Texas Wind power in Texas consists of many wind farms with a total installed capacity of 2,749 megawatts (MW) at the end of December 2006. ...
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide versus Time The United States is historically the worlds largest greenhouse gas emitter. ...
In the United States, emissions standards are managed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as some state governments. ...
The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations in the United States, first enacted by Congress in 1975,[1] are federal regulations intended to improve the average fuel economy of cars and light trucks (trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles) sold in the US in the wake of the 1973 Arab...
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