Surry Nuclear Power Plant

Surry Power Station is a nuclear power plant located in Surry County in southeastern Virginia, in the South Atlantic United States. The power station lies on an 840-acre site adjacent to the James River across from Jamestown, slightly upriver from Smithfield and Newport News.

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scotland and Jamestown.

Scotland

Village

Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Scotland also known as Scotland Wharf is a census-designated place in Surry County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Scotland had a population of 153. Scotland is situated 5 miles west of Surry Nuclear Power Plant.

Jamestown

Locality

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The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located, in what later became James City County, on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi southwest of present-day Williamsburg. Jamestown is situated 5 miles northwest of Surry Nuclear Power Plant.

Grove

Locality

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Grove is an unincorporated community in the southeastern portion of James City County in the Virginia Peninsula subregion of Virginia, United States. It is located in the center of the Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia, communities linked by the Colonial Parkway. Grove is situated 6 miles northeast of Surry Nuclear Power Plant.

Surry Nuclear Power Plant

Type: Power station
Description: Nuclear power plant in Surry County, Virginia
Categories: nuclear power plant and industry
Location: Surry, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.16497° or 37° 9′ 54″ north

Longitude

-76.69659° or 76° 41′ 48″ west

Elevation

23 feet (7 metres)

Inception

December 1972

Operator

Virginia Electric and Power Company

Open location code

87955873+X9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1231456212

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=industrial

GeoNames ID

6349005

Wikidata ID

Q1567468

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“Surry Nuclear Power Plant” goes by many names.

Arabic: “محطة سوري للطاقة النووية”
Czech: “Jaderná elektrárna Surry”
French: “Centrale nucleaire de Surry”
French: “centrale nucléaire de Surry”
French: “Centrale nucléaire de Surry”
German: “Kernkraftwerk Surry”
Japanese: “サリー原子力発電所”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Surry kjernekraftverk”
Norwegian: “Surry kjernekraftverk”
Russian: “АЭС Сарри”
Spanish: “Central nuclear de Surry”
Spanish: “Planta de energia nuclear Surry”
Spanish: “Planta de energía nuclear Surry”
Spanish: “Surry Nuclear Generating Station”

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