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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 .
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 ]
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%).
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 ...
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 ...
Erosion of the 6-inch-thick (150 mm) carbon steel reactor head, caused by a persistent leak of borated water, at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant. The United States Government Accountability Office reported more than 150 incidents from 2001 to 2006 of nuclear plants not performing within acceptable safety guidelines.
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: ...
"Surry power plant now faces last local hurdle" Daily Press, Feb. 2, 2010 "Facing objections, company eyes second power plant site" The Virginian-Pilot, Jan. 31, 2010 "Consider power plant from regional perspective" Tidewater News, Jan. 30, 2010 "IOW wants more information on proposed coal plant" Tidewater News, Jan. 23, 2010 "Surry Coal Plant ...