South Texas Nuclear Project
The South Texas Project Electric Generating Station, is a nuclear power station southwest of Bay City, Texas, United States. STP occupies a 12,200-acre site west of the Colorado River about 90 miles southwest of Houston.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Power station
- Description: Nuclear power plant in Matagorda County, Texas
- Also known as: “South Texas Nuclear Generating Station”, “STP”, and “STP Nuclear Operating Company”
South Texas Nuclear Project
- Categories: nuclear power plant and industry
- Location: Matagorda, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
28.79536° or 28° 47′ 43″ northLongitude
-96.04791° or 96° 2′ 53″ westElevation
66 feet (20 metres)Inception
August 1988Operator
South Texas Project Nuclear Operating CompanyOpen location code
76W5QXW2+4ROpenStreetMap ID
way 39899843OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“South Texas Nuclear Project” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة جنوب تكساس النووية”
- Chinese: “南德克薩斯州核電站”
- Chinese: “南德克薩斯核能發電站”
- Czech: “Jaderná elektrárna Jižní Texas”
- Czech: “Jaderná elektrárna South Texas”
- French: “centrale nucléaire de South Texas”
- French: “Centrale nucléaire de South Texas”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk South Texas”
- Japanese: “サウステキサス原子力発電所”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “South Texas kjernekraftverk”
- Norwegian: “South Texas kjernekraftverk”
- Persian: “نیروگاه هستهای جنوب تگزاس”
- Russian: “АЭС Саус-Тексас”
- Spanish: “Planta de energia nuclear South Texas”
- Spanish: “Planta de energía nuclear South Texas”
- Swedish: “South Texas Project Electric Generating Station”
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