Hallam Nuclear Generating Station

The Hallam Nuclear Generating Station in Nebraska was the site of an experimental graphite-moderated sodium cooled reactor built by Atomics International.^[1] It was located near Hallam, about 25 miles southwest of Lincoln.

Description

The graphite moderator was clad in stainless steel. There were issues with the cladding, as corrosion and stress cracking led to the failure of the cladding cans. Because the cost of correcting the failure would have outweighed the benefits, the plant was instead decommissioned and the nuclear components sealed in concrete.

Construction began in 1959 and first criticality was achieved in 1963.^[1] The plant's single 75 MW_e reactor operated from 1963 to 1964.^[1] Decommissioning was completed in 1969.^[2]

Present day

Currently the site holds a fossil-fuel plant, Sheldon Power Station.

References

1 2 3 "IAEA - Reactor Details - Hallam". IAEA. 2013-04-13. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
↑ State's First Nuclear Power Plant

Coordinates: 40°33′33.30″N 96°47′04.96″W / 40.5592500°N 96.7847111°W / 40.5592500; -96.7847111

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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