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Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant

The Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant, known as Plant Hatch, is a two-unit nuclear power plant near Baxley, Georgia, and the first nuclear generating station in the state.

El Dabaa nuclear power plant

The El Dabaa nuclear power plant (محطة الضبعة النووية) is Egypt's first nuclear power plant, under construction on the Mediterranean coast by Rosatom with four VVER-1200 reactors of 4,800 MWe total.

Electrabel

Electrabel is a Belgian energy company, created in 1990 by Tractebel and part of ENGIE since 2008, that is Belgium's leading electricity supplier and operates the Doel and Tihange nuclear power stations.

Embalse nuclear power plant

The Embalse nuclear power plant (Central Nuclear Embalse) is a CANDU 6 plant in Córdoba Province, Argentina, operating since 1984 and refurbished from 2016 to 2019.

Emsland nuclear power plant

The Emsland nuclear power plant (Kernkraftwerk Emsland, KKE) was a pressurized water reactor at Lingen in Lower Saxony, Germany, operating from 1988 until its shutdown in April 2023.

Energoatom

Energoatom, formally the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company, is Ukraine's state-owned nuclear power operator, running 15 reactors and nominally the Zaporizhzhia plant, occupied by Russia since March 2022.

Etango uranium project

The Etango uranium project, formerly known as Goanikontes, is a large undeveloped uranium mine in Namibia's Erongo Region owned by Australia-listed Bannerman Energy, holding 207 million pounds of contained U3O8.

Euratom

Euratom, formally the European Atomic Energy Community, is a legal entity established by the Treaty of Rome in 1957 to coordinate peaceful nuclear energy use in Europe.

Eurochemic

Eurochemic, the European Company for the Chemical Processing of Irradiated Fuels, was an international consortium of thirteen European countries whose reprocessing plant at Mol-Dessel, Belgium, operated from 1966 to 1974.

Eurodif

Eurodif was a multinational uranium enrichment consortium created in 1973 that operated a gaseous diffusion plant at Tricastin in southern France from 1979 to 2012.

Experimental Boiling Water Reactor

The Experimental Boiling Water Reactor was a prototype direct-cycle reactor at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois that achieved criticality in 1956, produced 5 MW of electricity, and was shut down in 1967.

Experimental Breeder Reactor II

Experimental Breeder Reactor II was a sodium-cooled pool-type fast breeder reactor in Idaho, built by Argonne National Laboratory and operated from 1964 to 1994 as the test bed for the US breeder program.

Fangchenggang nuclear power plant

Fangchenggang nuclear power plant is a nuclear power station on the Beibu Gulf coast in Guangxi, China, with four operating units and the first nuclear project in western China.

Fangjiashan nuclear power plant

Fangjiashan nuclear power plant (方家山核电站) is an operating two-unit nuclear plant at Qinshan in China's Zhejiang province, built as an extension of Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant I.

Fast Flux Test Facility

The Fast Flux Test Facility was a 400-megawatt sodium-cooled fast neutron research reactor at the Hanford Site in Washington, which operated from 1982 to 1992.

FBFC Dessel

FBFC International was a Framatome-owned nuclear fuel fabrication plant in Dessel, Belgium, making uranium and MOX fuel assemblies from 1973 until 2015; the site was fully dismantled by 2022.

FBTR

The Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) is India's first fast breeder reactor, a 40 MWt sodium-cooled fast reactor at Kalpakkam that attained criticality in 1985 and tests fuels for India's fast reactor program.

Federal Agency for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection

The Federal Agency for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection is the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina's radiation protection body, created in 1999 under the Federal Ministry of Health.

Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal

The Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung, BGE) is Germany's wholly federal radioactive waste disposal company, established by legislation in force 30 July 2016.

Federal Office for Radiation Protection

The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, BfS) is an independent scientific-technical federal authority of Germany responsible for radiation protection, established in 1989 and seated in Salzgitter.

Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management

The Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management, or BASE, is Germany's independent federal authority licensing and supervising nuclear waste disposal, storage, and transport.

Fermi 2

Fermi 2 is a boiling water nuclear power reactor on the shore of Lake Erie in Michigan, operated by DTE Electric and generating about 1,170 megawatts.

Fernald Feed Materials Production Center

The Fernald Feed Materials Production Center was a US Department of Energy uranium processing facility near Fernald, Ohio, that supplied the nuclear weapons program from 1952 to 1989.

Fessenheim nuclear power plant

Fessenheim (centrale nucléaire de Fessenheim) was a French nuclear power plant on the Rhine with two 900 MW reactors, in service from 1977 until shutdown in 2020.

Flamanville nuclear power plant

The Flamanville nuclear power plant is an EDF nuclear station in Normandy, France, with two reactors from 1985 and 1986 plus the EPR Flamanville 3, connected to the grid in 2024.

Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant

The Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant is an Iranian facility built inside a mountainside near Qom where uranium was enriched to 60 percent U-235, revealed in 2009.

Forsmark nuclear power plant

Forsmark nuclear power plant is a Swedish nuclear power station in Östhammar Municipality on the Baltic coast, running three reactors and supplying about one-sixth of Sweden's electricity.

Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant

The Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Nebraska, owned by the Omaha Public Power District, generated electricity from 1973 until it shut down in 2016 for economic reasons.

Fort St. Vrain

Fort St. Vrain was a 330 MWe helium-cooled nuclear power plant in Weld County, Colorado, the only commercial-scale HTGR in the United States, shut down in 1989.

Framatome

Framatome is a French nuclear energy company owned by EDF (80.5%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, supplying reactor equipment, fuel assemblies, and services to more than 250 reactors worldwide.