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The H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit 2 is a nuclear plant located near Hartsville, South Carolina. The plant consists of one Westinghouse 735 MW pressurized water reactor. The site also includes a coal-fired unit that generates 174 MW (which was retired in October 2012) and a combustion turbine unit that generates 15 MW. The Robinson plant is named for H. Burton Robinson, a former executive vice president of Carolina Power & Light. The plant is located adjacent to the Lake Robinson. The Robinson nuclear unit was the first commercial nuclear power plant in the southeastern United States and was then the largest such in the world. ==Surrounding population== The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway zone with a radius of , concerned primarily with exposure to, and inhalation of, airborne radioactive contamination, and an ingestion pathway zone of about , concerned primarily with ingestion of food and liquid contaminated by radioactivity. The 2010 U.S. population within of Robinson was 32,675, an increase of 2.6 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data for msnbc.com. The 2010 U.S. population within was 893,536, an increase of 10.3 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include Columbia (49 miles to city center).〔Bill Dedman, Nuclear neighbors: Population rises near US reactors, ''msnbc.com'', April 14, 2011 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42555888/ns/us_news-life/ Accessed May 1, 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「H. B. Robinson Nuclear Generating Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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