This chart provides an overview of the status of major restructuring activities at the state level.
May 18, 2007
This bar chart shows the ten countries with the greatest nuclear generation in 2008.
May 4, 2009
In the event of an imbalance in operations, the sophisticated safety systems of U.S. nuclear power plants are designed to shut down automatically well before any safety margins are exceeded. Unplanned automatic plant shutdowns, known as "scrams" or "trips" in the industry, are very infrequent. This graph summarizes unplanned automatic scrams in the U.S. nuclear industry between 1997 and 2008.
May 4, 2009
This bar chart depicts a 3-year rolling average of production costs by quartile in 2008 cents/kilowatt-hour between 2004 and 2008.
May 12, 2009
This bar chart presents 3-year rolling averages of U.S. nuclear industry capacity factors by quartile.
May 12, 2009
Transportation Container Cutaway Illustration (Labeled)
May 18, 2007
Transportation Container Cutaway Illustration (Translucent, Labeled)
May 18, 2007
Layout and cutaway of the General Electric Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR) reactor building with each component labeled. See the GE Energy Web site for more information.
May 18, 2007
Cutaway diagram of the General Electric Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR). See the GE Energy Web site for more information.
May 18, 2007
Cutaway illustration of the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor building. See the Westinghouse Nuclear Web site for more information.
May 18, 2007