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)

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

In Caithness at the very north end of Scotland

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

Berkeley (former CEGB)

2×138 MW Magnox [EOL]

Bradwell–on–Sea (former CEGB)

2×150 MW Magnox [EOL]

In the remote Dengie Hundred of Essex, on the site of a Second World War RAF station
There is continuing interest in new nuclear development at this site

Dungeness (former CEGB)

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

On the largest area of exposed shingle in Europe, Romney Marsh, Kent
A proposed further nuclear station at this site was negatived owing to concerns over flooding ; considerable effort is currently spent in moving the constantly–shifting shingle to maintain a large berm on the seaward side

Dungeness Nuclear Power Station, CEGB, circa 1966
Dungeness A : 40 Years of Power, British Nuclear, circa 2007
Dungeness wall chart from Nuclear Power magazine 1961 April (partially reproduced, at reduced size, in both of the above booklets)
Dungeness B AGR Nuclear Power Station, CEGB, 1965 July
Dungeness B Power Station Visitor Centre, small leaflet, EdF

Hartlepool (former CEGB)

2×590 MW AGR

Near Seaton Carew on the Tees estuary, north–east England

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

Heysham (former CEGB)

2×550 MW (Heysham 1) and 2×600 MW (Heysham 2) AGR

Hinkley Point (former CEGB)

A Station, 2×235 MW Magnox [EOL], B Station, 2×480 MW AGR [EOL], 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

Hunterston (former SSEB)

A Station, 2×160 MW Magnox [EOL], B Station, 2×500 MW AGR [EOL]

Oldbury–on–Severn (former CEGB)

2×300 MW Magnox [EOL]

Sizewell (former CEGB)

A Station, 2×290 MW Magnox [EOL], B Station, 1300 MW PWR, and under construction, C Station, 2×1630 MW PWR (EPR)

Torness (former SSEB)

2×600 MW AGR

Trawsfynnydd (former CEGB)

2×250 MW Magnox [EOL], plus 30 MW hydro

In north Wales, the only inland nuclear station in Britain, constructed to use the reservoir of the Maentwrog hydroelectric station (thereafter operated as an adjunct of the nuclear plant) for cooling

Wylfa (former CEGB)

2×590 MW Magnox [EOL]

At the north end of the Isle of Anglesey
There is continuing interest in new nuclear development at this site

United States of America

Research Establishments

National Reactor Testing Station

A grouping of facilities, also collectively or individually referred to as Idaho National Laboratory, Argonne West, and other designations

Argonne National Laboratory leaflets (undated, late 1980s)

Civil Power Stations

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)

560 MW PWR [EOL]

Technical Data (1969 April), includes fold–out chart of generation up to 1970 April

Edwin I Hatch (Georgia Power)

2×880 MW BWR, near Baxley GA

Visitor Center leaflet (undated, but before 1974)
A Step Into Tomorrow (1974 April)
Tour Tomorrow (undated but mid–1970s, large fold–out)

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)

Peach Bottom

40 MW HTR [EOL], 2×1300 MW BWR

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)

Rancho Seco (Sacramento Municipal Utilities District)

880 MW PWR [EOL]

Shippingport

60 MW PWR, started life as the US Navy’s Large Ship Reactor project, operated 1978—83 as the Light Water Breeder Reactor on the thorium–²³³uranium cycle

Beaver Valley is the same site

Visitor Center brochure (1972)

Trojan (Portland General Electric)

1100 MW PWR [EOL], on the Columbia River upstream from Portland, Oregon, noted for its cooling tower

Visitors Information Center leaflet (1984 July)
Oregon’s First Nuclear Generating Station (1978 July), booklet modified after printing with stickers and strike–outs

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. 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

Canada

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.