2 March 2005. One of the Eyeball series.

See also 63 US Nuclear Power Plants:

npp/62npp-eyeball.htm

Few high-resolution satellite images of US nuclear power plants are available. Exceptions are this one at McGuire, NC, Dresden, IL, Braidwood, IL, Salem-Hope Creek, NJ, and Oyster Creek, NJ, available from USGS satellite photo coverage.

FEMA's formerly public emergency information for this plant now withdrawn

http://www.fema.gov/pte/rep/mcguire.htm (now dead link)

McGuire Nuclear Power Station

Location

• Cowans Ford Dam, North Carolina

Licensee

• Duke Power Company

Plume (10-mile) Emergency Planning Zone Jurisdictions (now dead link)

• In North Carolina: Catawba County, Gaston County, Iredell County, Lincoln County, Mecklenburg County

Ingestion (50-mile) Emergency Planning Zone Jurisdictions

• North Carolina, South Carolina

Qualifying Exercise

• December 5-6, 1980

Chronology of Past Exercises

• December 1, 1982; November 2, 1983; October 30, 1984; October 1985; September 11, 1987; October 12, 1989; December 7, 1989; June 19, 1991; October 20, 1993; August 8, 1995

Status of 350 Plan Approval (now dead link)

• Approved June 4, 1981

Status of Alert and Notification System (now dead link)

• Approved October 24, 1986

Exercise Schedule (now dead link)

Additional Plant Information [NRC's Nuclear Plant Information Books] (new, active link)

Updated: June 12, 1997

Eyeballing the McGuire Nuclear Power Station

McGuire Nuclear Power Station 2002 USGS photo (One-quarter full size, made available on August 22, 2003) http://seamless.usgs.gov

McGuire Nuclear Power Station 2002 USGS photo (Full size, made available on August 22, 2003) http://seamless.usgs.gov