North Anna Nuclear Generating Station
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| Alabama |
| Bellefonte* Browns Ferry Farley |
| Florida |
| Crystal River 3 St. Lucie Turkey Point |
| Georgia |
| Hatch Vogtle |
| North Carolina |
| Brunswick McGuire Shearon Harris |
| South Carolina |
| Catawba Oconee H.B. Robinson Summer |
| Tennessee |
| Sequoyah Watts Bar |
| Virginia |
| North Anna Surry |
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| North Anna Nuclear Generating Station | |
 North Anna NPP
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| Country | USA |
| Location | Virginia |
| Operator | Dominion |
| Reactors | |
| Reactor supplier | Westinghouse |
| Reactor type | Pressurized water reactor |
| Reactors active | 2 (1790 MW) |
| Reactors planned | 1 (1520 MW) |
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| NRC region | 2 |
The North Anna nuclear power plant is on a 1,075 acre (4.4 km²) site in Louisa County, Virginia. North Anna is operated by Dominion Generation company. It is jointly owned by the Dominion Virginia Power corporation (88.4 %) and by the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (11.6 %).
The plant has two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors which went on-line in 1978 and 1980 respectively. Together the reactors generate 1.79 gigawatts of power, which is distributed mainly to the greater Richmond area and to Northern Virginia.
An artificial lake, Lake Anna, was constructed on the North Anna River to provide a reservoir of water coolant for use with the nuclear plant. Exhaustive studies have shown that the lake's abundant aquatic life are not harmed by the plant's operation.
Dominion currently owns nuclear power plants in Virginia (North Anna, Surry), Connecticut (Millstone), and Wisconsin (Kewaunee). North Anna is similar in design and appearance to Surry Power Station.
North Anna is currently going through the lengthy process of getting permission to build one to two additional units at the site. Construction on Unit 3 (an ESBWR) is expected to begin by 2009 or 2010.
[edit] External links
- Dominion's nuclear page
- DoE Page
- North Anna reactor proposal passes big test
- North Anna Nuclear Generating Station is at coordinates Coordinates:
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