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- Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant - Information about Plant Vogtle, located near Waynesboro in eastern Georgia near the South Carolina border.
www.southernco.com/southernnuclear/vogtle.asp
- Big Rock Point - Facts about the decommissioning of Consumers Energy's Big Rock Point nuclear plant which was shut down in 1997. The plant is located near Charlevoix, Michigan.
www.consumersenergy.com/ocompany/index.asp?SS1ID=158
- Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant - Baltimore Gas & Electric's Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant is located on Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County, Maryland. The web site features general plant information plus a look at the plant's license renewal activity.
www.calvertcliffs.com
- Comanche Peak - A 2,300 megawatt nuclear plant located near Glen Rose, Texas, about 80 miles southwest of Dallas.
www.txu.com/us/ourbus/elecgen/comanche.asp
- Connecticut Yankee - Connecticut's first commercial nuclear power plant, it was shut down in 1996 and is now undergoing decomissioning.
www.yankee.com
- Cooper Nuclear Station - A few key facts about the Cooper Nuclear Station which is located in Brownville, Nebraska.
www.nppd.com/aboutus/cns.asp
- Diablo Canyon - Official company site about this 2,190 megawatt PWR nuclear facility on California's central coast.
www.pge.com/diablocanyon
- Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant - Pictures of Pacific Gas & Electric Company's Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant located near San Luis Obispo, California. Unofficial site not sponsored by PG&E, featuring plant photos taken by a DCPP employee.
webpages.charter.net/jimzim/DiabloCanyon.html
- Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant - Located near Baxley in southeastern Georgia, plant Hatch is one of Georgia Power's two nuclear facilities and is one of three nuclear facilities in the Southern electric system.
www.southernco.com/southernnuclear/hatch.asp
- Energy Northwest's Columbia Generating Station - Information about Washington state's only operating commercial nuclear power plant. WNP-2 is located 12 miles north of Richland on the Department of Energy's Hanford site.
www.hanford.gov/tours/ENW.html
- Entergy Nuclear - Entergy operates nine nuclear units at seven plant sites: Arkansas Nuclear One, Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, River Bend Station, Waterford 3, Pilgrim Nuclear Station, Indian Point Units 2 & 3, and the James A. Fitzpatrick nuclear station.
www.entergy-nuclear.com
- FPL Nuclear Power - General information about nuclear power, plus an introduction to Florida Power & Light's nuclear units at Turkey Point and St. Lucie.
www.fpl.com/about/nuclear/contents/nuclear_power_serves_you.shtml
- How Stuff Works: Nuclear Power Plants - Illustrated tutorial about nuclear-powered electricity generation plants, with photos and animations.
www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm
- Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant - The Ignalina nuclear power plant contains RBMK-1500 water-cooled graphite-moderated channel-type power reactors. It is located in Lithuania.
www.iae.lt
- Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant - Plant Farley is a 2-unit Westinghouse PWR facility which has been operating since 1977. The plant site is near Dothan in southeast Alabama.
www.southernco.com/southernnuclear/farley.asp
- Lucas Heights: The Real Facts - Contains arguments for and against the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor located in Sydney, Australia.
www.geocities.com/lucasheights
- Maine Yankee - Maine Yankee, Maine's only nuclear power plant, closed in 1997 and is now beginning the process of decommissioning. It is located on Montsweag Bay in Wiscasset, Maine.
www.maineyankee.com
- NPCIL - Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited is an undertaking of the Government of India with the objective of facilitating the design, construction, operation and maintenance of atomic power stations.
www.npcil.org
- Nuclear Power Plant Demonstration - Interactive online demonstration: Play the role of a control-room operator at Sweden's Kärnobyl nuclear power plant, and try to keep the reactor running safely under various failure scenarios.
www.ida.liu.se/~her/npp/demo.html
- Nuclear Power Plant Simulation - A nuclear power plant simulator game written in Flash 4. Learn the basics of how a nuclear power plant works and try your hand at operating the simulator.
www.ae4rv.com/games/nuke.htm
- Palisades Nuclear Plant - An introduction to Consumers Energy's Palisades nuclear power plant, located near South Haven on the Lake Michigan shoreline.
www.consumersenergy.com/ocompany/index.asp?ASID=16
- Palo Verde - Unofficial page regarding Arizona's Palo Verde nuclear generating station, written by a plant employee.
www.posse.net/pveplan.htm
- San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station - San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) provides nearly 20 percent of the power to more than 15 million people in Southern California.
www.sce.com/songs
- Seabrook Nuclear Power Station - The history of Northeast Utilities' Seabrook station, a 1,150-megawatt Westinghouse PWR located in southeastern New Hampshire.
www.psnh.com/about/psnh75th/discoverpsnh.asp
- South Texas Project - A two-unit, 2,500 megawatt nuclear energy plant in Matagorda County, Texas. The web site features a virtual tour of the plant, plus extensive information about the facility.
www.stpnoc.com
- U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission - This site has been considerably scaled back due to security concerns following the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01
www.nrc.gov
- Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation - Vermont Yankee is an electric power generation company which owns and operates a 540 megawatt nuclear powered generating station located in Vernon, Vermont.
www.vermontyankee.com
- Waterford 3 Virtual Tour - An iPIX virtual tour of the Waterford 3 nuclear plant, located in Taft, Louisiana. Built in 1985, Waterford 3 has the capacity to generate 1,075 Megawatts of electricity... enough to power the city of New Orleans (which is 30 miles from the plant).
www.entergy-nuclear.com/education/virtual/tour_page_intro.asp
- Wolf Creek Generating Station - Official web site of this Westinghouse four-loop PWR located near Burlington, Kansas.
www.wcnoc.com
- Nuclear Energy Institute - Excellent source of information about the nuclear industry, including details of nuclear plant security in this era of concern about terrorism.
www.nei.org
- The Virtual Nuclear Tourist - A huge site (over 300 pages) with extensive photos and information about the nuclear industry around the world. Provides a good introduction for all age levels to learn about the many different types of nuclear power.
www.nucleartourist.com
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