Entergy Nuclear is a vital business unit of Entergy Corporation
Nuclear Sites
Entergy Nuclear is a vital business unit of Entergy Corporation.
Entergy operates twelve nuclear units at ten plant sites. With more than 35
years of proven operations and experience, we are the nation’s premier nuclear
operator.
As a world-class nuclear operator and management company,
we have more than 6,000 dedicated plant employees that undergo the world’s
toughest standards for operation, preparedness and training. At Entergy Nuclear,
we have our own brand of everyday heroes at nuclear power plants who work
insistently to safeguard the public health of the communities where we live, for
the neighbors we serve, and do so with passion that translates to everyday
excellence and overall safety.
“I want to assure Americans about the strength of our
systems, the rigor of our oversight and the promise of clean, affordable and
– above all – safe nuclear power.”
- John Herron, CEO |
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Entergy is changing the way nuclear plants are operated and, ultimately the
way energy is produced. We are doing this with a skilled, professional work
force and a vision for the future rooted firmly in a history of safety and
performance excellence.
Entergy Nuclear Highlights
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FitzPatrick, IPEC, VY, Pilgrim and Waterford 3 Achieve
Record Runs
FitzPatrick achieved a site record for the most days of continuously
producing electricity, reaching 702 days of safe, continuous operation in
2010. This record performance placed FitzPatrick first within the Entergy
nuclear fleet and seventh for all-time among all U.S. BWRs at the time.
Indian Point set a similar site record culminating with Unit 3’s 2009
refueling outage, with 678 days on-line, also a record at the time for
Westinghouse PWRs. In April 2010, Vermont Yankee also achieved a
breaker-to-breaker run, operating for 532 continuous days, just short of the
plant record of 547 days, set three years earlier. Pilgrim reached its best
record of 643 days of continuously producing electricity. As of March 24,
2011, Waterford 3 had achieved a new continuous run site record of 487 days. |
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Entergy Named a Best Corporate Citizen Nationally
Corporate Responsibility magazine named Entergy Corporation one of
the “100 Best Corporate Citizens” in the nation in 2011, the fourth time in
five years that Entergy has earned the distinction. The annual ranking is
based on an analysis of publicly available information used to rank
performance of the 1,000 largest companies in seven areas: climate change,
environment, philanthropy, employee relations, financial, governance and
human rights. |
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The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
Located in Albuquerque, N.M., the Museum is seeing strong attendance where
the Entergy classroom is used for ROBOQUEST, the robotics camp, on a daily
basis throughout the summer reaching more than 475 campers and their
families. Near the national Boy Scout camp, Stillman Boy Scout Ranch,
busloads of scouts visit the museum daily. |
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