Friday Nuclear Matinee: Vallecitos Atomic Power Plant – “1st Private Atom Power Plant Opens”
While Shippingport Atomic Power Station was the first full-scale nuclear plant to be designed and built to provide commercial electric power, the Vallecitos Atomic Electric Power Plant in California was actually the first privately-financed nuclear power plant to provide meaningful amounts of electricity for public use. The test reactor for Dresden-1 achieved criticality in August 1957, and connection to the local utility electric grid began that October.Vallecitos received Power Reactor License No. 1 from the Atomic Energy Commission.http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2013/03/29/friday-nuclear-matinee-vallecitos-atomic-power-plant-1st-private-atom-power-plant-opens/
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