Springfield Nuclear Power Plant
The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant owned by Mr. Burns and the main source of power in Springfield.
Profile
The city of Springfield's electricity is generated from the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. The plant has a monopoly on the city's energy supply, but is sometimes mismanaged and endangers much of the town with its presence. The plant is poorly maintained, largely due to owner Montgomery Burns' miserliness. Its safety record is appalling, with various episodes showing luminous rats in the bowels of the building, pipes and drums leaking radioactive waste, the disposal of waste in a children's playground, plutonium used as a paperweight, cracked cooling towers, dangerously high Geiger counter readings around the perimeter of the plant, and so on. Because of this, the plant was always shut down in some episodes. The plant houses a Fissionator 1952 Slow-Fission Reactor, according to one episode.
Real Life
The design and folly of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is based on the real life Trojan Nuclear Power Plant near Matt Groening's home town of Portland, Oregon. Trojan Nuclear Power Plant opened in 1970 was infamous for it's poor construction and maintenance, resulting in leaking steam generators by 1974. The leaking generators ultimately forced the plant to close in 1992.
