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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone, Pripyat, Ivankiv Raion, Ukraine
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• Large coal-fired, nuclear, and hydroelectric power stations can generate hundreds of Megawatts to multiple Gigawatts. Some examples:
- The Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in the USA has a rated capacity of 802 megawatts.
- The coal-fired Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in the UK has a rated capacity of 2 gigawatts.
- The planned expansion of Vogtle Electric Generating Plant will add 2.3 Gigawatts with construction of 2 new AP1000 nuclear reactors.
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