List of decommissioned Nuclear Power plants

Decommissioned Nuclear Power Plants in USA
Sorted by Mwe – Megawatts of Energy from largest to smallest
Updated 9-29-16

This table shows that as of this writing, SONGS, the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is the largest privately owned beachfront nuclear waste dump in the USA. The power plant had three nuclear generators with a total capacity of 2,800 MWe, creating many millions of pounds of radioactive waste that’s toxic to humans for millions of years. While the facility is located approximately 500 feet from the Pacific Ocean, the actual waste or ISFSI (Independent Spent Fuel Installation) will be stored in steel canisters 108 feet from the beach at San Onofre State Park.


NRC 4	YES, 600 ft from Columbia River	N-Reactor – Government Owned	Hanford Site, Washington	Get Map	4,000	1964	Dec-86	22
NRC 4	YES 500 ft from Pacific	San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Unit 3	San Diego County, California	Get Map	1,178	1-Apr-84	7-Jun-13	29
NRC 4	YES 500 ft from Pacific	San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Unit 2	San Diego County, California	Get Map	1,172	8-Aug-83	7-Jun-13	30
NRC 4	YES 500 ft from Pacific	San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Unit 1	San Diego County, California	Get Map	456	1-Jan-68	30-Nov-92	24
NRC 4	YES, 400 feet from Columbia River	Trojan Nuclear Power Plant	Columbia County, Oregon	Get Map	1,130	20-May-76	1992	9
NRC 4	NO, landlocked	Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station	Herald, California	Get Map	913	17-Apr-75	23-Oct-09	34
NRC 3	YES, 200 ft from Lake Erie	Zion Nuclear Power Station	Zion, Illinois	Get Map	912	Unit 2 of 2, 12/1/1973	Jan-98	25
NRC 1	YES 750 ft from Susquehanna River	Three Mile Island Unit 2	Harrisburg PA	Get Map	906	Unit 2 of 2 12/30/1978	1979	1
NRC 1	YES, 500 ft from Black River	Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant	Wiscasset, Maine	Get Map	860	28-Dec-72	1-Aug-97	28
NRC 2	YES, 250 ft from Water, 1 mi from Gulf	Crystal River 3 Nuclear Power Plant	Crystal River, Florida	Get Map	860	13-Mar-77	5-Feb-13	36
NRC 1	YES, 1500 feet from Atlantic	Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant	East Shoreham, New York	Get Map	820	1-Aug-86	1-May-89	3
NRC 1	YES, 100 ft from Atlantic	Millstone Nuclear Power Plant	Waterford, Connecticut	Get Map	660	Unit 1, 28 December, 1970	Unit 1, 21 July 1998	25
NRC 1	YES, 200 ft from Connecticut River	Connecticut Yankee	Haddam, Connecticut	Get Map	582	1968	2004	36
NRC 3	YES, 500 ft from Lake Erie	Kewaunee Power Station	Carlton, Wisconsin	Get Map	556	16-Jun-74	7-May-13	39
NRC 1	YES 500 Feet from River	Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant	Vernon, Vermont	Get Map	514	30-Nov-72	29-Dec-14	42
	NO FUEL STORED ONSITE	Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant, Unit 1	Monroe Michigan	Get Map	430	1963	1972	9
NRC 4	NO, landlocked	Fort St. Vrain Generating Station	Platteville, Colorado	Get Map	330	1-Jul-79	29-Aug-89	10
NRC 3	YES, 1700 ft from river	Dresden Generating Station	Goose Lake Township, Illinois	Get Map	210	Unit 1 of 3, 1960	Unit 1, 1978	28
NRC 1	NO	Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station	Rowe, Massachusetts	Get Map	185	1960	26-Feb-92	32
NRC 4	NO, landdlocked	Hallam Nuclear Generating Station	Hallam, Nebraska	Get Map	75	1963	1969	6
NRC 3	YES, 750 ft from Lake Erie	Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant	HaYES Township, Michigan	Get Map	67	29-Mar-63	29-Aug-97	34
NRC 1	YES, 1000 feet from river	Shippingport Atomic Power Station	Beaver County, Pennsylvania	Get Map	60	26-May-58	Dec-89	31
NRC 4	YES, 1000 ft from Big Sioux River	Pathfinder Nuclear Generating Station	Minnehaha County, South Dakota	Get Map	59	Jul-66	Oct-67	1
NRC 3	YES, 400 ft from Mississippi	La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor	Genoa, Wisconsin	Get Map	50	7-Nov-69	30-Apr-87	18
NRC 1	YES – On Susquehanna river	Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station	Peach Bottom Township, York County, Pennsylvania	Get Map	40	Unit 1 of 3: 1966	Unit 1, 1974	8
NRC 1	YES, 1000 feet from river	Saxton Nuclear Generating Station	Bedford County, Pennsylvania	Get Map	23.5	Nov-61	May-72	11
NRC 3	750 ft from river	Elk River Station	Elk River, Minnesota	Get Map	22	1-Jul-64	1-Feb-68	4
NRC 2	YES, 500 feet from river	Carolinas–Virginia Tube Reactor	Parr, South Carolina	Get Map	17	18-Dec-63	10-Jan-67	4
NRC 3	YES, 200 ft from river	Piqua Nuclear Generating Station	Springcreek Township, Ohio	Get Map	12.5	1963	1966	3
NRC 4	NO, landlocked	Sodium Reactor Experiment	Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Simi Valley, California	Get Map	6.5	12-Jul-57	15-Feb-64	7
NRC 4	NO, landlocked	Vallecitos Nuclear Center	Alameda County, California	Get Map	unknown	Oct-57	Dec-63	6