NuclearSiteDB
111 entries on nuclear power stations, research reactors, weapons test grounds, reprocessing plants, enrichment sites and fusion experiments. From Obninsk in 1954 to ITER, a factual map of the nuclear world.
Key Sites
Chernobyl
Four RBMK-1000 reactors north of Kiev. Unit 4 exploded during a safety test in April 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history, ...
Palo Verde
Three pressurized water reactors totaling about 3,900 MW in the Arizona desert west of Phoenix, the largest generator of electrici...
ITER
The international tokamak under construction at Saint Paul lez Durance by 35 nations, aiming to produce 500 MW of fusion power fro...
Fukushima Daiichi
Six boiling water reactors on the Pacific coast of Fukushima prefecture. The March 2011 tsunami flooded units 1 to 4, three cores ...
Bruce Nuclear Generating Station
Eight CANDU heavy water reactors on Lake Huron in Ontario with about 6,550 MW capacity, the largest operating nuclear station in t...
EBR-I
Experimental Breeder Reactor I in Idaho generated the worlds first electricity from nuclear fission in December 1951, lighting fou...
Hinkley Point C
Two EPR reactors under construction in Somerset, the first new British nuclear station in a generation and the most expensive powe...
Sellafield
The sprawling Cumbrian site that began as Windscale plutonium production, then reprocessed fuel in the Magnox and THORP plants, le...
Trinity Site
The first detonation of a nuclear weapon, the plutonium implosion device nicknamed the Gadget, at 5:29 am on 16 July 1945 on the A...