The Blue Hills Nuclear Power 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 ...
20 miles northeast of
Jasper, Texas.
It was proposed in the 1970s by the
Gulf States Utilities Company. One 918 MWe
pressurized water reactor
A pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of light-water reactor, light-water nuclear reactor. PWRs constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (with notable exceptions being the UK, Japan and Canada). In a PWR, the primary ...
was ordered in 1973, and an additional 918 MWe reactor was ordered in 1974 from
Combustion Engineering.
The two unit power plant proposal was canceled in 1978.
Nuclear Power Generation and Fuel Cycle Report 1997
pp. 61-62.
See also
* List of books about nuclear issues
* Nuclear power debate
*Nuclear power in the United States
Nuclear power in the United States is provided by 92 commercial reactors with a net capacity of 94.7 gigawatts (GW), with 61 pressurized water reactors and 31 boiling water reactors. In 2019, they produced a total of 809.41 terawatt-hours of el ...
*List of canceled nuclear plants in the United States
This is a list of canceled nuclear reactors in the United States.
History
The late 1960s and early 1970s saw a rapid growth in the development of nuclear power in the United States. By 1976, however, many nuclear plant proposals were no longer v ...
References
External links
Cancelled Nuclear Units Ordered in the United States
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Cancelled nuclear power stations in the United States