Operating or closed.
Including their individual histories, locations, technical details, official contact points, and local activist groups.
There are over 100 operating nuclear power plants in America and 16 non-operational power plants, and a large number of nuclear fuel and weapons facilities. The more you know about these places, the more frightened you’ll be -- and should be!
How can we protect our nuclear power plants?
Don’t count on the plant security forces -- they aren’t nearly strong enough. These plants are each vulnerable to air strikes, truck bombs, boat bombs, and of course, the well-equipped and well-armed single madman or small group of terrorists. All anyone needs to do is toss a grenade into a Spent Fuel Pool and hundreds of thousands or even MILLIONS could die.
WE CAN SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE OUR VULNERABILITIES BY CLOSING / CONVERTING THE NUKE PLANTS TO NATURAL GAS AND WIND FARMS, ETC..
(That is exactly what they did to Fort St. Vrain in Colorado.) The energy price per kilowatt is much lower than for nuclear or any other energy source. And there’s no “decommissioning” of wind turbines, either.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is a lap-dog agency which does little to protect the public and much to inhibit the replacement of nuclear technology with other, safer energy sources. They will not protect you. In fact, RIGHT NOW they are relicensing many of these reactors for another 20 years each of dangerous operation.
It’s time for a change, America!
This country needs to wise up to the lie that we’ll “freeze in the dark” if we turn off the nukes. There are clean energy solutions which we must adopt.
Sources for this list include the webmaster’s store of NRC files which were downloaded before the NRC revised their web site; NUREG 1437, which the NRC has since reposted; DOE’s 1999 Yucca Mountain Draft Environmental Impact Statement; NO NUKES, by Anna Gyorgy and Friends, 1979, South End Press; The Electric War by Sheldon Novick, Sierra Club Books, 1976; and many other sources including hundreds of articles, company web sites, industry web sites, activist web sites, etc.. Please send suggestions or updated information to: Russell Hoffman, webmaster: rhoffman@animatedsoftware.com
Please visit our Internet Glossary of Nuclear Terminology:
For a giant list of about 200 nuclear-related books, videos, and pamphlets collected by the webmaster of this site:
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REGIONAL INFORMATION (color coded)
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A note on Naval Reactors (written by John P. Shannon, November, 2001):
KAPL [Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory] presently has no land based power plants in operation. The last two were shut down as a result of my TV appearance a few weeks ago.
The two available to be restarted, when no one is watching, are located in West Milton, NY, about 25 miles north of Albany, which is the capital of NY, and ten miles west of NY's premier tourist attraction during June, July and August. During this time ten's of thousands of visitors are in town, many of them millionaires.
Naval Nuclear Power Plants are, however, located at Pearl Harbor, HI, Norfolk, VA, Puget Sound, Washington State, Charleston, SC and San Diego, CA.
Many are located at Sea at all times.
I have always thought that sabotage at one of the big Navy Bases would be a disaster, however, the Navy has always considered sabotage to be a non credible scenario and has never taken plans to protect against such an act. We had many arguments on this subject many times at KAPL and most of us [Engineers] were in favor of planning for Sabotage.
The morons who really run the show the so called "...decision makers..." would never pay for the extra engineering effort to protect against the possibility of sabotage at any Naval Reactor Facility, including shipyards.
John P. Shannon, U. S. Marine Corps Major, Former Nuclear Physicist/Nuclear Engineer, Former Supervising Nuclear Physicist/Engineer and Former Manager of Nuclear Safety, Industrial Safety/Industrial Hygiene at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.
In the chart below:
AEC = Atomic Energy Commission (The AEC was split into the DOE and the NRC in 1974)
CRAC-2 = 1982 government estimates of “worst case” deaths for various reactors. These are highly dated underestimations which nevertheless are still interesting. Updating of the CRAC-2 analysis is not required for plant relicensing, even though the most vulnerable elements at the sites the spent fuel pools and dry storage casks are not included in the CRAC-2 assessment (because they were not expected to be there). For more information about CRAC-2 including a breakdown of the casualty figures, “scaling” notes, and how to order a copy of the full CRAC-2 report, please visit: http://www.mothersalert.org/crac.html . From there you’ll find lots of other radiation web sites.
Type: PWR = Pressurized Water Reactor (All PWRs use steam generators to produce the steam that drives the plant’s turbines. Primary water flows through 4,000 15,000 tubes, depending on design. These tubes are subject to degradation from corrosion, cracking, fatigue, and wear (Source: ORNL 1999 NPP Analysis, Appendix E-3). Ice-Condenser type PWR plants have smaller and weaker containments than most other reactor types.)
Type: BWR = Boiling Water Reactor (Mark 1: GE single-cycle forced-circulation boiling water reactor)
Mfg: AC = Allis-Chalmers
Mfg: W = Westinghouse
Mfg: GE = General Electric
Mfg: B&W = Babcock & Wilcox
Mfg: CE = Combustion Engineering
Mfg: OPS = Offshore Power Systems (Westinghouse-Tenneco)
ISFSI = Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation. (Also known as Dry Cask Storage, it is extremely dangerous and should not be allowed. The DOE projects that by 2010 82 nuclear plants at 52 sites will have to add approx. 10,000 MTU of Dry Cask Storage. (Source: ORNL 1999 NPP Analysis, Appendix E-3))
Ultimate Heat Sink = Technical term for where the radioactive waste will seep for thousands of years if there’s a meltdown. (The real “ultimate heat sink” and ultimate disposal location for all reactor waste is our biosphere and our bodies.)
