Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station
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Named for Italian-American Enrico Fermi (borne in Rome), the first physicist to create a nuclear reactor, the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Power Plant is located between Detroit, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio near the community of Newport, Michigan.
The 94MWe prototype fast breeder reactor Fermi 1 unit operated at the site from 1963 to 1972 and is now in the process of decommission. On October 5, 1966 Fermi-1 suffered a partial nuclear meltdown (see the discussion in List of nuclear accidents). No radiation was released off-site, and no one was injured.
Fermi 2 is a General Electric boiling water reactor operated by the Detroit Edison Company and owned by DTE Energy.
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