Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 .
Southampton Power Station: Franklin: Biomass: 51: Spotsylvania Solar Spotsylvania: Solar 617 [18] Spruance Genco- Cogentrix: Richmond: Natural gas [19] 240 [20] Stonewall Natural gas 812 Surry Nuclear Power Plant: Surry: Uranium: 1678: Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center: Wise County: Coal: 610: Yorktown Power Station: Yorktown: Coal, oil: 1141 ...
Coal plants have been closing at a fast rate since 2010 (290 plants closed from 2010 to May 2019; this was 40% of the US's coal generating capacity) due to competition from other generating sources, primarily cheaper and cleaner natural gas (a result of the fracking boom), which has replaced so many coal plants that natural gas now accounts for ...
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 Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (11.6%).
The two-unit Surry Nuclear Power Plant was commissioned in 1972 and 1973 and is expected to remain active until 2053. Transportation. Major highways US 460; SR 10 ...
Public safety officials will test the emergency sirens at the R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant in Ontario on May 7. The annual test will include 96 sirens, blaring for about four minutes between 9: ...
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear reactor accidents from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define major energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.
The St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant will conduct its quarterly testing of the outdoor warning sirens at noon Thursday. All 91 sirens within 10 miles of the plant's emergency planning zone will sound ...