Piqua Nuclear Generating Station

Piqua Nuclear Generating Station
The Piqua reactor when it was operational.
Country	United States
Location	Springcreek Township, Miami County, near Piqua, Ohio
Coordinates	40°07′56.34″N 84°14′05.16″W / 40.1323167°N 84.2347667°W / 40.1323167; -84.2347667
Status	Decommissioned
Commission date	1963
Decommission date	1966
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The Piqua Nuclear Power Facility was an organic cooled and moderated nuclear reactor which operated just outside the southern city limits of Piqua, Ohio in the United States. The plant contained a 45.5-megawatt (thermal) organically cooled and moderated nuclear reactor (terphenyl, a biphenyl like oil).^[1] The Piqua facility was built and operated between 1963 and 1966 as a demonstration project by the Atomic Energy Commission. The facility ceased operation in 1966. It was dismantled between 1967 and 1969, and the radioactive coolant and most other radioactive materials were removed. The remaining radioactive structural components of the reactor were entombed in the reactor vessel under sand and concrete.