Public Information Materials from Specific Nuclear Sites

Great Britain

Atomic Energy Authority and British Nuclear Fuels Limited sites

Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment (UKAEA), in Caithness at the very north end of Scotland

Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR), 14 MW [EOL], Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR), 250 MW [EOL], Materials Testing Reactor (DMTR) [EOL], reprocessing pilot plant, and other research facilities

• Dounreay, folder with images and text made to contain the two following booklets (circa 1987)
• Prototype Fast Reactor
• PFR Fuel Reprocessing

Sellafield (UKAEA/BNFL)

Calder Hall power station, 4×48 MW PIPPA (pre–Magnox) [EOL], Windscale Advanced Gas–cooled Reactor prototype, 24 MW [EOL], and Windscale fuel reprocessing plant

• Calder Hall, visitor’s booklet, UKAEA, 1957 (Price One Shilling)
• Calder Hall, visitor’s booklet, UKAEA, 1961 (Price One Shilling)
• Windscale and Calder Works, BNFL, 1981
• Sellafield, BNFL, 1986
• “Cumbrian Contrasts” tourist leaflet advertising the Sellafield visitor center and the Ravenglass and Eskdale narrow–gage steam railway, circa 1988

Atomic Energy Establishment Winfrith (UKAEA)

Steam–Generating Heavy Water Reactor prototype, 92 MW [EOL], and various research facilities

• Nuclear Power — Do You Know?, one A4 sheet which depicts but does not mention the SGHWR (1979)

Central Electricity Generating Board and South of Scotland Electricity Board sites

Dungeness (former CEGB), Romney Marsh, Kent

A Station, 2×225 MW Magnox [EOL], B Station, 2×545 MW AGR [EOL]

• Dungeness B Power Station Visitor Centre, small leaflet, EdF

Hartlepool (former CEGB), near Seaton Carew on the Tees estuary, north–east England

2×590 MW AGR

• Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station, visitor booklet, CEGB, circa 1987
• Hartlepool Power Station, multi–fold visitor leaflet, CEGB, circa 1989
• 1988 Yearly Report, multi–fold, CEGB National Power Division
• Open Weekend, 9–10 September 1989, under the auspices of National Power, one of the short–lived privatization bodies created upon the dissolution of the CEGB

Hinkley Point (former CEGB)

A Station, 2×235 MW Magnox [EOL], B Station, 2×480 MW AGR [EOL], notable for an auxiliary gas turbine installation which served both for station emergency power and as peaking capacity for the grid, and now under construction, C Station, 2×1630 MW PWR (EPR)

• Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station, multi–fold visitor leaflet, CEGB, 1985

United States of America

Big Rock Point (Consumers’ Power Company)

75 MW BWR [EOL]

• Restaurant placemat, apparently distributed free to roadside eateries in the hope of catching the attention of business travelers (circa 1965)
• Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant, visitor booklet (1962)
• Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant, updated version of the above booklet (1965)
• Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant, updated version of the above booklet (1967)
• Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant, updated version of the above booklet (1969)

Haddam Neck (Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company)

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (Southern California Edison / San Diego Gas & Electric)

500 MW PWR [EOL], 2×1100 MW PWR [EOL]

• San Onofre Nuclear Information Center, tri–fold leaflet (circa 1965)
• San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station… Tomorrow’s Power… Today!, color booklet (circa 1965)

Vallecitos

Small boiling–water reactor (5 MW) [EOL] built by General Electric for development work, proudly advertised as the first privately–owned licensed power–producing reactor in the USA, and other facilities including the ESADA reactor which superheated steam from the BWR

• Vallecitos Atomic Power Plant — Electric Power from Nuclear Fuel, booklet produced by Pacific Gas and Electric (1960) — silver–paper did not scan well

Rowe, Massachusetts (Yankee Atomic Electric Company)

Note : EOL indicates End–of–Life, a unit which has been permanently withdrawn from service.

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