| 词条 | Vallecitos Nuclear Center |
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The Vallecitos Nuclear Center is a nuclear research facility, and the site of a former General Electric electricity-generating nuclear power plant in unincorporated Alameda County, California, about 30 miles (48 km) east of San Francisco, in NRC Region Four.[1] It is owned by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy[2] and is located among the hills in a rural area on State Highway 84 between Livermore, California and Interstate 680, south of Pleasanton, California. The Vallecitos boiling water reactor (VBWR) was the first privately owned and operated nuclear power plant to deliver significant quantities of electricity to a public utility grid. During the period October 1957 to December 1963, it delivered approximately 40,000 megawatt-hours of electricity. This reactor — a light-water moderated and cooled, enriched uranium reactor using stainless steel-clad, plate-type fuel — was a pilot plant and test bed for fuel, core components, controls, and personnel training for the Dresden Nuclear Power Plant, a Commonwealth Edison station built in Illinois five years later. The plant was originally a collaborative effort of General Electric and Pacific Gas and Electric Company, with Bechtel Corporation serving as engineering contractor. Samuel Untermyer II, the General Electric engineer responsible for the initial design of the VBWR, had performed much of the conceptual research at Argonne National Laboratory while conducting heat transfer and nuclear physics experiments, including the BORAX experiments (boiling reactor experiment). Vallecitos Power Plant held the United States Atomic Energy Commission's "Power Reactor License No. 1".[3] The main power generating facilities closed in 1963.[4] The discovery of an active fault line running beneath the facility led to the closure of its most productive reactors in 1977.[5] The Vallecitos site includes the Radioactive Materials Laboratory where post-irradiation examinations are carried out. A small 100-kilowatt research reactor is still in operation at the site. Vallecitos also fabricates radioactive source materials used in medicine and industry, under a license issued by the State of California.[6] References1. ^Alameda County Maps 2. ^{{cite web |url = http://www.gepower.com/prod_serv/products/nuclear_energy/en/vallecitos_nuclear_center.htm |title = Vallecitos Nuclear Center |accessdate = 2011-03-17 |publisher = GE Energy |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101218204717/http://www.gepower.com/prod_serv/products/nuclear_energy/en/vallecitos_nuclear_center.htm |archive-date = December 18, 2010 |dead-url = yes |df = mdy-all}} 3. ^{{Cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/31/classified/paid-notice-deaths-untermyer-samuel-ii.html | title=Paid Notice: Deaths Untermyer, Samuel II | work=The New York Times | date=2001-01-31 | accessdate=2015-01-26}} 4. ^[https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/decommissioning/power-reactor/vallecitos-boiling-water-reactor-vbwr-.html Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (VBWR)] 5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/news/sfexam03.htm|title=E. Bay plant quietly handles nuke waste|website=www.state.nv.us|access-date=2017-02-21}} 6. ^[https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/1999/99-035iv.html NRC to meet with public in California to discuss GE Vallecitos Nuclear Center] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041107171639/http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/1999/99-035iv.html |date=November 7, 2004 }} External links{{stack|{{Portal|California|Energy|Nuclear technology}}}}
6 : Energy infrastructure completed in 1957|Buildings and structures in Alameda County, California|Nuclear power plants in California|Former nuclear power stations in the United States|Science and technology in the San Francisco Bay Area|Energy in the San Francisco Bay Area |
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