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Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant (CY) was a nuclear power plant located in Haddam Neck, Connecticut. The power plant is on the Connecticut River near the East Haddam Swing Bridge . The plant was commissioned in 1968, ceased electricity production in 1996, and was decommissioned by 2004.
Haddam contains five villages: Hidden Lake, Higganum, Shailerville, and Tylerville on the west side of the river, and Haddam Neck on the east. For the first two hundred years of the town's existence, the Connecticut River was a major source of income and transportation. Today, the town of Haddam is a residential community. [6]
In 2023, the electrical energy generation mix was 61.3% natural gas, 34.2% nuclear, 1.1% biomass & refuse-derived fuels, 1% solar, 0.9% hydroelectric, 0.4% petroleum, and 1.1% other. Distributed small-scale solar, including customer-owned photovoltaic panels, delivered an additional net 1,243 GWh to the state's electricity grid in 2023.
Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Station is an inactive single unit 636 MWe boiling water reactor power plant in the United States. The plant is located on an 800-acre (3.2 km 2) site adjacent to Oyster Creek in the Forked River section of Lacey Township in Ocean County, New Jersey.
According to the patent application [5] the reactor design has some notable characteristics, that sets it apart from other reactor designs. It uses uranium hydride (UH 3) "low-enriched" to 5% uranium-235—the remainder is uranium-238—as the nuclear fuel, rather than the usual metallic uranium or uranium dioxide that composes the fuel rods of contemporary light-water reactors.
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David Charles Hahn (October 30, 1976 – September 27, 2016), sometimes called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" and the "Nuclear Boy Scout" was an American nuclear radiation enthusiast who built a homemade neutron source at the age of seventeen.
Winger from Sweden suffered a neck injury in final regular-season game of 2023-24 season and missed the Stanley Cup playoffs. Hurricanes’ Jesper Fast to have neck surgery, expected to miss 2024 ...