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A reactor operator (or nuclear reactor operator) is an individual at a nuclear power plant who is responsible for directly controlling a nuclear reactor from a control panel and is the only individual at a nuclear power plant who can directly alter significant amounts of reactor reactivity.
US nuclear power plants, highlighting recently and soon-to-be retired plants, as of 2013 (US EIA). Nuclear power plant locations and nameplate capacity of the top 10 states. Power plants map August 2016. This article lists the largest nuclear power stations in the United States, in terms of Nameplate capacity.
The Iberdrola Group has a total installed nuclear capacity of 3,344 MW. It has stakes in the Santa María de Garoña Nuclear Power Plant (50%), Trillo Nuclear Power Plant (49%), Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant (52%), Unit 2 of Ascó Nuclear Power Plant (15%), Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant (100%), and Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant (28%).
The nuclear power industry is increasingly looking to smaller reactors, which run on HALEU. These reactors can last longer than conventional ones and fit into smaller spaces — making them more ...
Until last year, when a Georgia nuclear plant commenced operations, there had not been a nuclear power plant built from scratch in the U.S. in over 30 years. It was the first nuclear reactor start ...
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) is an American research and development facility based in Niskayuna, New York and dedicated to the support of the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. [1] KAPL was instituted in 1946 under a contract between General Electric and the United States government .
With a push from Gov. Gavin Newsom, the California State Legislature passed Senate Bill 846 in September, allowing up to $1.4 billion to be allocated to PG&E to fund the nuclear power plant’s ...
Quad Cities Generating Station is a two-unit nuclear power plant located near Cordova, Illinois, United States, on the Mississippi River.The two General Electric boiling water reactors give the plant a total gross electric capacity of approximately 1,880 MW.