Public Information Materials from Specific Power Stations and Other 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 FBR [EOL], Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR), 250 MW FBR [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] (noteworthy 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)
When first investigated as a power–plant site, this headland in Somerset was marked on some maps as Hankley Point and on others as Inkley Point.

• 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] on Lake Michigan near Charlevoix

• 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)

Clinch River Breeder Reactor

A Step Toward Energy Independence — 350 MW FBR near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, never allowed to start up

• Breeder Basics (1979 August)
• How much radiation will the public receive from the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Plant? (worksheet, 1980 March)
• Public Information Resources (1982 September)

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (small leaflets)

• Are Russia & France ahead in developing breeders? (1977 April)
• Does nuclear power mean proliferation? (1977 April)
• Are breeders safe and good for the environment? (1978 February)
• How does a breeder work? (1978 February)

Enrico Fermi (Detroit Edison)

60 MW FBR [EOL], 1100 MW BWR, Lagoona Beach, Michigan

• Monroe Faces Tomorrow, The Story of the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Breeder Reactor, small booklet prepared by the local bank (no date but circa 1960)
• Developmental Fast Breeder Power Reactor, booklet with explanatory diagrams from Atomic Power Development Associates (no date but circa 1960)

Haddam Neck (Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company)

Indian Point (Consolidated Edison)

260 MW PWR with oil–fired superheater [EOL], 2×1000 MW PWR [EOL], on the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York

• Atomic Power at Indian Point (no date but circa 1960)

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

500 MW PWR [EOL], 2×1100 MW PWR [EOL], on one of the best surfing beaches in North America

• 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 near Pleasanton, California, for development work, and proudly advertised as the first privately–owned licensed power–producing reactor in the USA, along with 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)

The first large (185 MW) PWR [EOL], and the first PWR built specifically for utility service. (The original PWR plant, Shippingport in Pennsylvania, started life as the US Navy’s Large Ship Reactor project.) Notable for its spherical reactor building, mounted on pillars, completely above–ground.

• Yankee Atomic Electric Company (1960), booklet with color diagram centerspread
• The Yankee Story (1967), updated 6th edition of above booklet

Finland

Olkiluoto

The second nuclear power plant site in Finland sits on the Gulf of Bothnia, and currently hosts two Swedish–built 900 MW BWR units (uprated from 660 MW) and one French–built 1600 MW PWR, as well as the Onkalo repository for radioactive wastes and spent nuclear fuel. As is typical of electricity supply works in Finland, the plant is owned by a joint–stock company called Teollisuuden Voima Oy (or Industrins Kraft AB), the shareholders of which are major electricity consumers, each receiving power in proportion to its capital stake.

• TVO 1976 Annual Report, depicting progress on the construction of Olkiluoto units 1 and 2

Norway

Halden

Although Norway has no nuclear power stations per se, the boiling–heavy–water reactor at Halden [EOL], in addition to serving for decades as a testbed for fuel and components for light– and heavy–water power reactors, routinely supplied steam to a nearby pulp–and–paper mill.

• Instruments and Research Facilities (1982), a booklet which appears to have been produced by Xeroxing a section from a longer document

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

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