Nuclear Facilities:
Nuclear facilities include power plants, weapons facilities, test sites, laboratories, and nuclear waste sites. While most are large and high profile, many others are small and low key. Radioactive byproducts are sometimes stored on-site or shipped to other premises. For national security reasons they are always heavily guarded. The most famous US facilities are large national laboratories which were established during World War II for the Manhattan Project and during the early days of the Cold War.
Nuclear Power Plants:
- Arkansas Nuclear One - Entergy Nuclear - Russellville, AR
- Beaver Valley - First Energy Corporation - Shippingport, PA
- Braidwood - Exelon - Braceville, IL
- Browns Ferry - Tennessee Valley Authority - Decatur, AL
- Brunswick - Progress Energy - Southport, NC
- Byron - Exelon - Byron, IL
- Callaway - Ameren - Callaway, MO
- Calvert Cliffs - Baltimore Gas & Electric - Lusby, MD
- Catawba - Duke Power Company - York, SC
- Clinton - Amergen - Clinton, IL
- Columbia Energy - Northwest - Richland, WA
- Comanche Peak - TU Electric - Glen Rose, TX
- Cooper - Nebraska Public Power District - Brownville, NE
- Crystal River - Progress Energy - Crystal River, FL
- Davis Besse - First Energy Corporation - Oak Harbor, OH
- DC Cook - American Electric Power - Bridgman, MI
- Diablo Canyon - Pacific Gas & Electric - Avila Beach, CA
- Dresden - Exelon - Morris, IL
- Duane Arnold - Alliant Energy / NMC - Palo, IA
- Exelon - Exelon - Downers Grove, IL
- Farley - Southern Nuclear - Ashford, AL
- Fermi 2 - Detroit Edison - Newport, MI
- FitzPatrick - Entergy Nuclear - Lycoming, NY
- Fort Calhoun - Omaha Public Power District - Omaha, NE & Calhoun, NE
- General Electric - General Electric Nuclear - San Jose, CA
- Ginna - Rochester Gas & Electric - Ontario, NY
- Grand Gulf - Entergy Nuclear Port - Gibson, MS
- Hatch - Southern Nuclear - Baxley, GA
- Hope Creek - Public Service Electric & Gas Company - Hancocks Bridge, NJ
- Indian Point 2, 3 - Entergy Nuclear - Buchanan, NY
- Kewaunee - Wisconsin Public Service Corporation / NMC - Kewaunee, WI
- LaSalle - Exelon - Marseilles, IL
- Limerick - Exelon - Saratoga, PA
- Maine Yankee - Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company - Wiscasset, ME
- McGuire - Duke Power Company - Huntersville, NC
- Millstone 1, 2, 3 - Dominion - Waterford, CT
- Monticello - Xcel Energy / NMC - Monticello, MN
- NEI - Nuclear Energy Institute - Washington, DC
- Nine Mile Point 1, 2 - Niagara Mohawk Power Company - Lycoming, NY
- North Anna - Dominion - Mineral, VA
- Northeast Utilities - Northeast Utilities - Waterford, CT
- NPPD - Nebraska Public Power District - Brownville, NE
- Oconee - Duke Power Company - Seneca, SC
- Oyster Creek - Amergen - Forked River, NJ
- Palisades - Consumers Energy / NMC - Covert, MI
- Palo Verde - Arizona Public Service Company - Phoenix,AZ
- Peach Bottom - Exelon - Delta, PA
- Perry - First Energy Corporation - Perry, OH
- Pilgrim - Entergy Nuclear - Plymouth, MA
- Point Beach - Wisconsin Electric Power Company / NMC - Two Rivers, WI
- Prairie Island - Xcel Energy / NMC - Welch, MN
- Quad Cities - Exelon - Cordova, IL
- River Bend - Entergy Nuclear - St. Francisville, LA
- Robinson - Progress Energy - Hartsville, SC
- Salem - Public Service Electric & Gas Company - Hancocks Bridge, NJ
- Seabrook - North Atlantic Energy Service Corp. - Seabrook, NH
- Sequoyah - Tennessee Valley Authority - Soddy-Daisy, TN
- Shearon Harris - Progress Energy - New Hill, NC
- San Onofre (SONGS) 2 and 3 - Southern California Edison - San Clemente, CA
- South Texas Project - STP Nuclear Operating Company - Wadsworth, TX
- St Lucie - FPL - Ft. Pierce, FL
- VC Summer - South Carolina Electric & Gas Company - Jenkinsville, SC
- Surry - Dominion - Surry, VA
- Susquehanna - Pennsylvania Power & Light Company - Berwick, PA
- Three Mile Island - Amergen - Middletown, PA
- Turkey Point - FPL - Princeton, FL
- TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority - Chattanooga, TN
- USNRC - US Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Rockville, MD
- Vermont Yankee - Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation - Vernon, VT
- Vogtle - Southern Nuclear - Waynesboro, GA
- Waterford - Entergy Nuclear - Killona, LA
- Watts Bar - Tennessee Valley Authority - Spring City, TN
- Wolf Creek - Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Company - Burlington, KS
Below is an alphabetical listing of additional nuclear facilities within the United States:
Ames National Laboratory is a US Department of Energy/University of Iowa facility. It was established in 1947 to produce uranium for nuclear energy production. It's mission continues today to seek out new materials for energy production. Ames produced the uranium that was used to create the world's first controlled nuclear chain reaction and proved that nuclear energy could be safely harvested. Ames is located in Iowa.
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Argonne National Laboratory is a US Department of Energy/University of Chicago facility. Established in 1946 as America's first national laboratory, it was created to develop nuclear energy reactors for use in nuclear power plants. The laboratory operates facilities in Illinois and Idaho.
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Brookhaven National Laboratory is a US Department of Energy/Brookhaven Science Associates facility. Established in 1947, part of its mission is to carry out high risk nuclear experiments and to design nuclear facilities. Brookhaven is located on Long Island, New York.
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The BWXT Pantex site is a US Department of Energy facility that assembles and disassembles nuclear weapons. It was established in 1942 for conventional weapons assembly. In 1947 nuclear weapons assembly was added. The site is located in Texas.
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The Fernald Environmental Management Project (Fernald Closure Project) is a former uranium processing center which was established in 1951 by the Atomic Energy Commission. The site was closed in 1991 due to low product demand. In 1992 cleanup of the Ohio site began.
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The Hanford Site is a US Department of Energy facility. Formerly called the Hanford Federal Nuclear facility, it played a key role during the Manhattan Project in World War II. It produced plutonium for the world's first atomic bomb which was tested over the New Mexico desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Today, the Hanford Site concentrates on nuclear cleanups and environmental issues. The Hanford Site located in Washington State.
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The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory is a US Department of Energy/ Bechtel/BWX Technologies/Inland Northwest Research Alliance facility. It was created in in 1949 as a nuclear reactor test station. It once house over 50 nuclear reactors, which was the world's highest concentration. Its nuclear mission has grown to include cleanup of contaminated sites.
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Los Alamos is a US Defense Department/Department of Energy/University of California facility which is the home of the Manhattan Project and where America's first atom bomb was conceived. It is located in New Mexico.
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The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was established in 1931 and is the oldest facility among all of the American national laboratories. It is a US Department of Energy/University of California facility. It is famous for its Cyclotron particle accelerator and for pioneering radioactive beam technology. The facility is located in California.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a US Department of Energy/University of California facility which was responsible for developing the Hydrogen Bomb. It was created in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb. The laboratory is located in California.
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The Miamisburg Closure Project is a US Department of Energy facility which which was established during the 1940s to produce nuclear weapons components. Cleanup of the Ohio site is currently underway.
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The Nevada Test Site is one of the largest nuclear test sites in the word and is larger than the state of Rhode Island. It was established in 1951 by the Atomic Energy Commission. Almost 1000 nuclear tests have been conducted above and below ground at the site. A moratorium on nuclear testing went into effect in 1992 and as a result the site is now mainly used for military training, chemical testing, and hazardous materials storage.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a US Department of Energy/UT-Batelle facility. It was created in 1943 to produce and separate plutonium during the Manhattan Project. Among its current specialties are isotope production and the pioneering of new sources of energy . The laboratory is located in Tennessee.
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The Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory is a US Department of Energy/Princeton University facility. The laboratory began in 1951 with a mission to study plasma fusion. It continues to explore fusion as an energy source. The facility is located in New Jersey.
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The Radiological and Environmental Laboratory is owned and operated by the US Government's Department of Energy. One of it's main functions is to measure radioactivity levels. The facility is located in Idaho.
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The Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site is a US Department of Defense nuclear weapons components plant which was established during the 1940s. The Colorado site is currently being cleaned up and is scheduled for closure.
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Sandia National Laboratory is a US Defense Department/Lockheed Martin facility. It concentrates on nuclear weapons development, non-proliferation & assessments, military technologies & applications, energy & critical resources, as well as on the final phases of weapons production. Sandia facilities are located in New Mexico and California.
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The Savannah River Site is a US Department of Energy/Department of Defense/Westinghouse Savannah River Company facility and was established during the 1950s to produce nuclear weapons components and continues to do so. The facility is located in South Carolina.
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The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is a US Department of Energy facility which was established in 1993 to manage nuclear waste disposal. It is located in New Mexico.
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The West Valley Demonstration Project is a US Department of Energy authority. It was created in 1980 to oversee the solidification and disposal of nuclear waste from a former nuclear fuel reprocessing plant and storage facility in New York State.
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The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository (Yucca Mountain Project) is a proposed (and very controversial) long-term underground storage facility which would house all existing and future nuclear waste produced in the United States. The US Department of Energy facility is located inside of the Nevada Test Site's Yucca Mountain.
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For information regarding additional US nuclear facilities (as well as worldwide facilities) please visit the following:
