Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is a fictional nuclear power plant in the television animated cartoon series The Simpsons. The plant, owned by Charles Montgomery Burns, is located at 100 Industrial Way. The plant has a monopoly on the city of Springfield's energy supply, and the carelessness of Mr. Burns and the plant's employees often endangers the residents and natural environment of Springfield.
The plant is poorly maintained and incompetently...
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Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is a fictional nuclear power plant in the television animated cartoon series The Simpsons. The plant, owned by Charles Montgomery Burns, is located at 100 Industrial Way. The plant has a monopoly on the city of Springfield's energy supply, and the carelessness of Mr. Burns and the plant's employees often endangers the residents and natural environment of Springfield.
The plant is poorly maintained and incompetently run, largely because of owner Montgomery Burns' negligence and miserliness. The core of the plant is a Fissionator 1952 Slow-Fission Reactor, operating in spite of more than 342 safety violations. In one episode it is estimated that bringing the plant up to code would cost $56 million. The plant itself has come close to a meltdown several times. Its safety record is appalling, with various episodes showing luminous rats in the bowels of the building, the cooling towers releasing green radioactive smoke and gases (although they are only...
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