Summer site in fairfax county. In addition to the new reactors approved by the nrc in georgia the commission is expected to vote on final approval of two additional reactors at the v c. As an increasing number of coal fired power plants are closing across the nation some are looking to nuclear power to fill this void and meet the expected surge in electricity demands in the coming decades.
Wants to build nuclear power plants that will work on the moon and mars and on friday put out a request for. Us eyes building nuclear power plants for moon and mars boise idaho ap the u s. The beaver valley nuclear power plant is a nuclear power plant that produces electricity on the ohio river in the city of shippingport in beaver county in the western corner of pennsylvania usa.
Arkansas nuclear one 2 nuclear power plant london arkansas beaver valley 1 nuclear power plant shippingport pennsylvania. Those power stations that are smaller than 1 000 mw and those that are only at a planning or proposal stage may be found in regional lists at the end of the page or in the list of nuclear reactors the list is based on figures from pris power reactor information system maintained by. The following page lists all nuclear power stations that are larger than 1 000 mw in current net capacity.
Select your state to see how nuclear energy benefits your community. Across the united states 95 nuclear reactors power tens of millions of homes and anchor local communities. In 2018 nuclear energy comprised nearly 50 percent of u s.
In 2019 they produced a total of 809 409 thousand megawatt hours of electricity which accounted for 20 of the nation s total electric energy generation. Nuclear power in the united states is provided by 96 commercial reactors with a net capacity of 98 gigawatts gw 64 pressurized water reactors and 32 boiling water reactors.
