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Name Location Owner Operator Unit Type Capacity, MWe Operational Notes
NRC Region One (Northeast)
Beaver Valley Shippingport, PA FirstEnergy FirstEnergy 1 PWR 810 1976-
2 PWR 831 1987-
Calvert Cliffs Lusby, MD Constellation Constellation 1 PWR ??? ????-
2 PWR ??? ????-
Connecticut Yankee Haddam Neck, CT ??? ??? 1 ??? ??? 1968-1996 Decommissioned; demolition in progress
FitzPatrick Oswego, NY Entergy Entergy 1 BWR 825 1975-
Ginna Ontario, NY Constellation Constellation 1 PWR ??? 1970-
Hope Creek Salem, NJ PSEG PSEG 1 BWR 1120 1986-
Indian Point Buchanan, NY Entergy Entergy 1 ??? ??? ????-1974 Retired
2 PWR 971 1973-
3 PWR 984 1976-
NRC Region Two (South)
NRC Region Three (Midwest)
NRC Region Four (West)

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[edit] United States of America

[edit] Power station reactors

[edit] NRC Region One (Northeast)

[edit] NRC Region Two (South)

[edit] NRC Region Three (Midwest)

[edit] NRC Region Four (West)

[edit] Ginna

The Robert E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, commonly known as Ginna (IPA: [gɪn'e] with g as in give), is a nuclear power plant located on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, approximately 20 miles northeast of Rochester, New York [1]. It is a single unit Westinghouse 2-Loop pressurized water reactor, similar to those at Point Beach, Kewaunee, and Prairie Island. Ginna is one of the oldest nuclear power reactors still in operation in the United States, having gone into commercial operation in 1970. [2]

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Ginna is owned and operated by Constellation Energy Group, who purchased it from Rochester Gas and Electric in 2004.[3]

The Ginna plant was the site of a small nuclear accident when, on January 26, 1982, a small amount of radioactive steam leaked into the air after a steam-generator tube ruptured. The leak which lasted 93 minutes led to the declaration of a site emergency. The rupture was caused by a small pie-pan-shaped object left in the steam generator during an outage. This was not the first time a tube rupture had occurred at an American reactor but following on so closely behind the TMI Incident caused considerable attention to be focused on the incident.

In 1996 the original Westinghouse suppled steam generators (including the one that was damaged in 1982 and repaired) were replaced by two brand new Babcock and Wilcox steam generators. This project enabled an uprating of Ginna's output several years later and was a major factor in the approval of the plant's operating license extension for 20 years beyond the current license valid until 2009.

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