Experimental Breeder Reactor nuclear power plant
Experimental Breeder Reactor nuclear power plant is a nuclear site in United States with 2 units on record. None is currently operating.
Units
Unit by unit
Each unit's rating, type and milestone dates as recorded by the Global Nuclear Power Tracker, with any correction we made to it. A dash or "not disclosed" means the source does not give the value.
Experimental Breeder Reactor nuclear power plant 1 Retired
| Reactor type | not disclosed |
|---|---|
| Model | not disclosed |
| Size class | Very small |
| Gross capacity | 0MW |
| Net capacity | not disclosed |
| Thermal output | not disclosed |
| Enrichment | not established |
| NSSS vendor | not on record |
| Owner | US Department of Energy100% |
| Operator | Argonne National Laboratory-West |
| Construction start | 1 Jan 1949 |
|---|---|
| First criticality | 20 Dec 1951 |
| Commercial operation | 1 Jan 1951 |
| Permanent shutdown | 1 Jan 1964 |
Experimental Breeder Reactor nuclear power plant 2 Retired
| Reactor type | not disclosed |
|---|---|
| Model | not disclosed |
| Size class | Very small |
| Gross capacity | 19MW |
| Net capacity | not disclosed |
| Thermal output | not disclosed |
| Enrichment | not established |
| NSSS vendor | not on record |
| Owner | US Department of Energy100% |
| Operator | Argonne National Laboratory-West |
| First criticality | 1 Jan 1965 |
|---|---|
| Commercial operation | 1 Jan 1965 |
| Permanent shutdown | 1 Jan 1994 |
Experimental Breeder Reactor nuclear power plant in context
No other nuclear site with an exact position in this dataset lies within 300 km.
How these are worked out: ranks use gross operating capacity; ages count from the start-up year on record, as on the age page; build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the build-times page; ratings are the tracker's net and design net capacity, as on the uprates page. Distances are straight-line between exact positions, so a site with only an approximate position gets none. A unit missing a date or a rating is left out of the figure that needs it.
| Location | Idaho, United States |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 43.5115, -113.0087 |
| Elevation | about 1530 mabove sea level |
| Setting | About 870 km from the sea |
| Region | Northern America |
| Units by status | Retired: 2 |
Elevation is read at the listed coordinates from a 30 m terrain model (SRTM 30 m). Two independent models differ by a median of 6 m across our plants and by up to about 40 m on steep or coastal ground, and a point on a shoreline can read as sea level. Distance to the water is measured to a generalised 1:10 million coastline, so a few kilometres or less is not resolved. This is context, not a design-basis or flood-risk figure.
| Owners | US Department of Energy |
|---|---|
| Operators | Argonne National Laboratory-West |
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Sources
- Global Nuclear Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, August 2026 release , CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-06
- GEM.wiki entry (further reading) , CC BY-SA 4.0, linked, not quoted
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