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Nuclear power plant with two units (reactors) that generate over 1,700 megawatts. Suffered a blackout of its electrical systems in the control room in 1991, which prompted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to close the plant down for a few weeks. Acquired from Mohawk...
Hanford is one of five major Department of Energy nuclear processing plants and R...
Sirens such as this one are installed in three Massachusetts communities near the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in southern Vermont. In the event of an accident at the plant, the siren would emit a steady three to five minute tone, after which residents should...
The Savannah River Site is a 310-square-mile Department of Energy (DOE) facility located on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River. It is one of the major nuclear materials processing plants in the United States, and is operated by the Westinghouse Company. The...
One of the nation's six original low-level radioactive waste sites, Sheffield was opened in 1967, was filled to permitted capacity in 1978, and was subsequently closed. For much of its life it was operated by US Ecology, a division of American Ecology, which also...
General Dynamic's Electric Boat division operates a hull fabrication plant here, where large Navy vessels are assembled, mostly nuclear submarine hulls. The partially built vessels are barged to Electric Boat's main facility in Groton, Connecticut. The 169-acre...
A museum of the uranium mining industry featuring a journey through a reconstructed uranium mine in the museum's basement. The uranium mining industry boomed around Grants in the 1950s, and continued through the 1980s, becoming the nation's largest source of uranium,...