The nuclear power plant is owned and operated mainly by the arizona public service company which claims about 29 stake of the company. The power from the station serves approximately 4 million people. It is the largest power station in the us by power output with an average electric power production of over 3 gigawatts.
The map shown above illustrates the location of all the operating nuclear power plants in the united states i believe there are 104 and i have added a 50 mile radius 100 mile diameter circle around each one. Nuclear power plant locations. Every year only 20 is generated by nuclear facilities.
Of the 4 trillion kwhs of electricity produced by the u s. This map accounts for the megawatts or mwt of nuclear energy produced per state and displays each nuclear generating facility s contribution toward each state s total nuclear output. 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.
Kml gpx the following page lists all nuclear power stations that are larger than 1 000 mw in current net capacity. Openstreetmap download coordinates as. Map all coordinates using.
While the majority comes from fossil fuels like natural gas 32 1 and coal 29 9 there are also many other minor sources that feed into the grid ranging from biomass to geothermal. This map shows every power plant in the united states every year the united states generates 4 000 million mwh of electricity from utility scale sources. 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. The nuclear regulatory commission protecting people and the environment.
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Us nuclear power plants map. Across the united states 95 nuclear reactors power tens of millions of homes and anchor local communities.
Across the united states 95 nuclear reactors power tens of millions of homes and anchor local communities.
