Galena Nuclear Power Plant

The Galena Nuclear Power Plant was a proposed nuclear power plant to be constructed in the Yukon River village of Galena in the U.S. state of Alaska. If it had been built in the projected time frame, it would have been the first non-military nuclear power plant built in Alaska to be utilized for public utility generation.

In April 2008, Marvin Yoder, a consultant on the reactor, said that Toshiba was planning to make the application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2009, and that if approval had been given in 2010 or 2011, the reactor could have been operational by 2012 or 2013. The company was also developing a 50 megawatt (electric) version of the reactor.^[1]

The plan had been to build a 10-megawatt reactor that would have been buried underground, and fuel would have powered the reactor for 30 years. According to Dennis Witmer, an energy consultant with the UA Alaska Center for Energy and Power, the project was "effectively stalled." Toshiba never began the expensive process for approval that is required by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.^[2]

Notes

↑ Toshiba continues efforts for Galena nuclear power plant, Alaska Journal of Commerce, April 27, 2008
↑ Rettig, Molly (23 January 2011). "Why nuclear energy is on hold for Alaska Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Why nuclear energy is on hold for Alaska". Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Retrieved 13 March 2012.

References

Bradner, Tim (2004-12-26). "Galena opens the door to nuclear project". Alaska Journal of Commerce. Retrieved 2006-06-19.
"Nuclear Power for Galena". Atomic Insights. March 20, 2005.
Technical documents
Information from KIYU radio

Nuclear power in the United States

Reactors

NRC Region I (Northeast)	Beaver Valley Calvert Cliffs FitzPatrick Ginna Hope Creek Indian Point Units 2 and 3 Limerick Millstone Units 2 and 3 Nine Mile Point Oyster Creek Peach Bottom Pilgrim Salem Seabrook Susquehanna Three Mile Island Unit 1

NRC Region II (South)	Browns Ferry Brunswick Catawba Farley Harris Hatch McGuire North Anna Oconee Robinson Sequoyah St. Lucie Summer Surry Turkey Point Vogtle Watts Bar

NRC Region III (Midwest)	Braidwood Byron Clinton Cook DAEC Davis–Besse Dresden Fermi LaSalle Monticello Palisades Perry Point Beach Prairie Island Quad Cities

NRC Region IV (West)	Arkansas Callaway Columbia Comanche Peak Cooper Diablo Canyon Grand Gulf Palo Verde River Bend South Texas Waterford Wolf Creek

Converted	Midland (natural gas) Somerset (coal) Zimmer (coal)

Closed	Big Rock Point Connecticut Yankee Crystal River CVTR EBR I EBR II Elk River Fort Calhoun Fort St. Vrain Hallam Hanford Site Humboldt Bay Indian Point Unit 1 Kewaunee La Crosse Maine Yankee Millstone Unit 1 Pathfinder Piqua Rancho Seco San Onofre Sodium Reactor Experiment Saxton ANPP SL-1 SM-1 ML-1 PM-1 PM-3A SM-1A MH-1A Shippingport Shoreham Three Mile Island Unit 2 Trojan Vallecitos Vermont Yankee Yankee Rowe Zion

Canceled	Allens Creek Atlantic Bailly Barton Bell Bend Bellefonte Black Fox Blue Hills Bodega Bay Clinch River Erie Forked River Galena Greene County Hartsville Haven Levy Marble Hill Montague Offshore Sears Isle Skagit/Hanford South River Stanislaus Sundesert Victoria WPPSS 1 3 4 5 MM-1 Yellow Creek

Future	Lee

Under construction	Summer-2 Summer-3 Vogtle-3 Vogtle-4

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