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Dresden Generating Station (also known as Dresden Nuclear Power Plant or Dresden Nuclear Power Station) is the first privately financed nuclear power plant built in the United States. Dresden 1 was activated in 1960 and retired in 1978. Operating since 1970 are Dresden units 2 and 3, two General Electric BWR-3 boiling water reactors.
The NRC regulates all nuclear plants and materials in the U.S. except for of nuclear plants and materials controlled by the U.S. government, as well those powering naval vessels. [28] [29] The 1979 Three Mile Island accident was a pivotal event that led to questions about U.S. nuclear safety. [30]
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear power plant accidents from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define nuclear energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.
Illinois electricity production by type. This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Illinois, sorted by type and name.In 2022, Illinois had a total summer capacity of 44,163 MW and a net generation of 185,223 GWh through all of its power plants. [2]
Satellite image of the reactor and surrounding area in April 2009. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, [a] also called the 30-Kilometre Zone or simply The Zone, [5]: p.2–5 [b] was established shortly after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.
SL-1 accident 1961, January 3 All three of the experimental reactor crew died when the reactor went prompt critical and the core explosively vaporized. 3 Samut Prakan radiation accident: 2000 February Three deaths and ten injuries resulted when a radiation-therapy unit was dismantled. [20] 2 Tokaimura nuclear accident, Japan: 1999, September 30
A map claiming to show the areas of the US that may be targeted in a nuclear war that originally circulated in 2015 is making the rounds again, amid the Russian war in Ukraine.
Direct fatalities from the accident Two immediate trauma deaths; 28 deaths from Acute Radiation Syndrome out of 134 showing symptoms; four from an industrial accident (helicopter crash); 15 deaths from radiation-genic thyroid cancers (as of 2005); [ 20 ] as many as 4000 to 90000 cancer related deaths.