The Alan R. Barton Nuclear Plant was a proposed commercial

nuclear power plant A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a electric generator, generato ...

in central Alabama, United States.

Proposed plant

Alabama Power Company Alabama Power Company, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is a company in the southern United States that provides electricity service to 1.4 million customers in the southern two-thirds of Alabama. It also operates appliance stores. It is one ...

proposed constructing four 1,159 MWe General Electric Boiling Water Reactors at the site approximately 15 miles southeast of Clanton, Alabama.NUREG-1350 (Volume 18), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: August 2006.
/ref> The proposed plant was named after Alabama Power Company Senior Vice President Alan R. Barton. The proposed plant was identified by the acronym ABNP in Nuclear Regulatory Commission correspondence. NUREG-0544 (Rev. 4), NRC Collection of Abbreviations
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1970s cancellation

Barton 3 & 4 were canceled in 1975 while under 10CFR50 Construction Permit (CP) review. Two years later, Barton 1 & 2 were canceled during the CP review process as well.

Reactor data

The nuclear power plant was to have had four units:

References

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