Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant

Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant
Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant as seen from Humboldt Hill
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CountryUnited States
LocationHumboldt County, near Eureka, California
Coordinates40°44′28.76″N 124°12′32.56″W / 40.7413222°N 124.2090444°W / 40.7413222; -124.2090444
StatusDecommissioned
Construction beganUnit 3: November 10, 1960 (1960-11-10)
Commission dateUnit 3: August 1963
Decommission dateUnit 3: September 30, 2020 (2020-09-30)
Construction cost$65 million (decommissioning cost $1.1 billion)
OwnerPacific Gas and Electric Company
OperatorPacific Gas and Electric Company
Nuclear power station
Reactors1
Reactor typeBWR
Reactor supplierGeneral Electric
Site elevation44 feet (dry cask storage of radioactive fuel and other components)
Cooling sourcePacific Ocean
Thermal capacity220 MWth[1]
Power generation
Make and modelGeneral Electric Natural Circulation
Units decommissioned1 x 65 MW
External links
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The Humboldt Bay Power Plant, Unit 3 was a 63 MWe nuclear boiling water reactor, owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company that operated from August 1963 to July 1976 just south of Eureka, California, in an area referred to as King Salmon[2] and Fields Landing.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference pris-humboldt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Savage, J. A. (November 18, 2021). "PG&E Reactor Officially Decommissioned, Nuclear Waste Not". North Coast Journal. Retrieved 2024-09-02.