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  2. Surry Nuclear Power Plant - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. List of power stations in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Virginia. In 2022, Virginia had a total summer capacity of 29,169 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 89,477 GWh. [ 2 ]

  4. Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami caused a loss of electric power at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan (via severing the connection to the external grid and destroying the backup diesel generators). The decay heat could not be removed, and the reactor cores of units 1, 2 and 3 overheated, the nuclear fuel melted, and the ...

  5. 'Shut it down!' How group chats, rumors and fear sparked a ...

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    As incendiary claims ricocheted across group chats and were amplified online, a crowd converged on UCLA and violence ignited when police left the scene. 'Shut it down!' How group chats, rumors and ...

  6. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant to test emergency sirens ... - AOL

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    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: ...

  7. List of nuclear power accidents by country - Wikipedia

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    Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear power plant 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 nuclear energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.

  8. Surry - Wikipedia

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    Surry, Virginia, United States; Surry County, North Carolina, United States; Surry County, Virginia, United States; Surry Nuclear Power Plant, near Newport News, Virginia; Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia; Surry (1811 ship), the first convict ship to be quarantined in Australia; Surry, neologism found in Laura Nyro's lyrics to "Stoned ...

  9. Underground nuclear weapons testing - Wikipedia

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    The test took place in a 1,600 [21] to 2,000 ft [22] (500 to 600 m) horizontal tunnel in the shape of a hook. [22] The hook "was designed so explosive force will seal off the non-curved portion of tunnel nearest the detonation before gases and fission fragments can be vented around the curve of the tunnel's hook". [ 22 ]