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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 .
Once peaceful nuclear reactors were legalized for use as power plants, power corporations jumped at the opportunity to utilize the growing development of nuclear powered steam generators. Westinghouse built one of the first nuclear power plants, the Yankee Rowe nuclear power station (NPS), which also used a nuclear powered steam generator, in 1960.
Over time the plant capacity was further up-rated to 1,633 Megawatts and 1.5 million pounds per hour steam. In July 2002, an unused nuclear reactor vessel head from Unit 2 was removed from its containment building for transportation to Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station near Oak Harbor, Ohio, where it replaced a damaged vessel head on a reactor. [9]
In 1867, Stephen Wilcox, Jr. and his partner George Herman Babcock, of Providence, Rhode Island, patented their so-called safety boiler (“Improvements in Steam Generators,” U.S. Patent No. 65,042). Its water was dispersed in many small tubes that resisted exploding when heated, a significant advance over conventional shell boilers, whose ...
When cutting into Crystal River 3 Nuclear Power Plant containment building to create a large opening for the replacement of the Steam generator (nuclear power) the structure was severely cracked resulting in the permanent closure of the facility. 0: 1,000+ February 1, 2010: Vernon, Vermont, US
Surry, Virginia, USA: Surry Unit 2 shut down in response to failing tube bundles in steam generators: 0: 12: March 28, 1979: Middletown, Pennsylvania, USA: Loss of coolant and partial core meltdown, see Three Mile Island accident and Three Mile Island accident health effects: 0: 2,400: 5 October 17, 1981: Buchanan, New York, USA
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant is a facility located in Scioto Township, Pike County, Ohio, just south of Piketon, Ohio, that previously produced enriched uranium, including highly enriched weapons-grade uranium, for the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the U.S. nuclear weapons program and Navy nuclear propulsion; in later years, it produced low-enriched uranium for fuel for ...
Dresden 1 Nuclear Flow Diagram featured a secondary steam generator for load following. The reactor featured a dual cycle, with steam coming from both the stream drum and steam generators. This made for rapid response to changes in power demand. Reactor power was regulated by actuation of the secondary admission valve by the turbine's governor.