The Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant is located on the Tennessee River near Decatur and Athens, Alabama, on the north side of Wheeler Lake. The site has three General Electric boiling water reactor nu
Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant (NRC image)
Unit 1 under construction
Polyurethane foam used to fill a cable tray penetration at a power plant in Nova Scotia (subsequently removed and replaced with firestop mortar).
Towers crumpled by the tornado.
Nuclear safety in the United States is governed by federal regulations issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The NRC regulates all nuclear plants and materials in the United States except for n
A clean-up crew working to remove radioactive contamination after the Three Mile Island accident.
Spent nuclear fuel stored underwater and uncapped at the Hanford site in Washington, USA.
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station surrounded by the 2011 Missouri River Floods on June 16, 2011
The Hanford site represents two-thirds of America's high-level radioactive waste by volume. Nuclear reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River in January 1960.