Due to an accident that began at 4 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 1979, Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant was Condemned and permanently shut down.
Illinois is were nuclear power is most used
The Shippingport reactor was the first full-scale PWR nuclear power plant in the United States.
It is legal to build a nuclear power plant in the U. S., provided the licenses and permits are granted.
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The first commercial nuclear power plant in the US was built in 1957 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. The first commercial nuclear power plant in the world was built in 1956 in Calder Hill, UK.
Have a look at the map of nuclear sites on the NRC website www.nrc.gov
Shippingport nuclear power point: May 1958, the first commercial reactor in USA.
Electricity supplies in the US contain about 19 percent nuclear generation, so anything which uses electricity from the mains uses nuclear power
The newest nuclear plant is Watts Bar 1, TN, which got its full power license 02/07/1996. See the link below
It gives us more jobs which in turn decreases unemployment rates.