Decommissioning has already proven to be safe and successful. More than 40 U.S. research reactors have been decommissioned and 10 U.S. commercial nuclear plants have been or are being decommissioned.

Plants that have completed decommissioning: Shippingport, Pennsylvania; Pathfinder, South Dakota; Shoreham, New York; and Fort St. Vrain, Colorado.

Plants currently decommissioning: Connecticut Yankee, Connecticut; Yankee Rowe, Massachusetts; Maine Yankee, Maine; Big Rock, Michigan; Trojan, Oregon, and San Onofre 1, California; and Millstone 1, Connecticut.

Plants that have permanently shut down and delayed decommissioning because there are other nuclear units still operating on the same site or are in the process of evaluating their decommissioning options: Dresden 1, Illinois; Fermi 1, Michigan; Humboldt Bay, California; Indian Point 1, New York; LaCrosse, Wisconsin; Peach Bottom 1, Pennsylvania; Rancho Seco, California; Three Mile Island 2, Pennsylvania.