Vallecitos Nuclear Power Plant

Vallecitos Nuclear Power Plant
Reactor building
location
Coordinates	37 ° 36 '48 "  N , 121 ° 50' 25"  W Coordinates: 37 ° 36 '48 "  N , 121 ° 50' 25"  W.
Country:	United States
Data
Owner:	General Electric
Operator:	General Electric
Project start:	January 1, 1956
Commercial operation:	October 19, 1957
Shutdown:	December 9, 1963
Decommissioned reactors (gross):	1 (24 MW)
Was standing:	March 18, 2008
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

Vallecitos ( English Vallecitos Nuclear Generating Station ) is the first commercially used nuclear power plant in the USA and has a boiling water reactor . The nuclear power plant is located 30 miles east of San Francisco in the US state of California .

history

The reactor in Vallecitos is a boiling water reactor built by General Electric . The owner and operator was also General Electric. Construction officially began on January 1, 1956, and the reactor was commissioned on October 19, 1957. The reactor was also used to train operators for the Dresden nuclear power plant .

The reactor was a joint project between General Electric, Pacific Gas and Electric and the Bechtel Corporation . It was shut down in 1963.

A small research reactor with a maximum output of 100 kW is still in operation on the site . There are also laboratories for metallurgical analyzes of irradiated materials and for the production of radioactive preparations for medicine and industry.

Data of the reactor block

The Vallecitos nuclear power plant has one block :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Vallecitos	Boiling water reactor	24 MW	24 MW	01/01/1956	October 19, 1957	October 19, 1957	December 9, 1963

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)

See also

• List of nuclear power plants