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Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant
5:34 AM
Posted by Energetic
Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant is a thermal nuclear power plant located in Lower Alloways Creek Township, New Jersey on the same site as the two-unit Salem Nuclear Power Plant. The plant is owned and operated by PSEG Nuclear LLC. It has one unit (one reactor), a boiling water reactor (BWR) manufactured by GE. The Hope Creek reactor uses the same "Mark I" containment style found in the Fukushima I nuclear plant and a number of other reactors worldwide, although other aspects of the plant design differ. It has a generating capacity of 1,268 MWe. The plant came online on July 25, 1986, and its license to operate expires April 11, 2026. PSEG has applied for a 20-year license renewal.
Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant is one of four licensed nuclear power reactors in New Jersey. The others are the two units at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant, and the one unit at Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station. As of January 1, 2005, New Jersey ranked 10th among the 31 states with nuclear capacity for total MWe generated. In 2003, nuclear electricity generated over one half of the electricity in the State.Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant | |
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Country | United States |
Locale | Lower Alloways Creek |
Status | Operational |
Construction began | 1974–1986 |
Commission date | December 20, 1986 |
Licence expiration | April 11, 2026 |
Operator(s) | PSEG |
Architect(s) | Bechtel |
Constructor(s) | Bechtel |
Reactor information | |
Reactors operational | 1 x 1059 MW |
Reactor type(s) | GE-5 |
Reactor supplier(s) | General Electric |
Power station information | |
Generation units | 1 GE 25kV |
Power generation information | |
Installed capacity | 1059 MW |
Annual generation | 8,104 GW·h |
Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant
5:29 AM
Posted by Energetic
Wolf Creek nuclear power plant located near Burlington, Kansas, occupies 9,818 acres (40 km²) of the total 11,800 acres (48 km²) controlled by the owner. Wolf Creek, dammed to create Coffey County Lake (formerly Wolf Creek Lake), provides not only the name, but cooling water for the reactor.
This Wolf Creek nuclear power plant has one Westinghouse pressurized water reactor which came on line on June 4, 1985. The reactor is rated at 1,170 MW(e).
On October 4, 2006, the operator applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a renewal and extension of the plant's operating license. The NRC granted the renewal on November 20, 2008, extending the license from forty years to sixty.The Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, a Delaware corporation, operates the power plant. The ownership is divided between Kansas Gas & Electric Co. (47%) (now known as Westar Energy), Kansas City Power and Light Company (47%), and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (6%).
Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant | |
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Country | United States |
Locale | Hampden Township, Coffey County, near Burlington, Kansas |
Status | Operational |
Commission date | September 3, 1985 |
Licence expiration | March 11, 2045 |
Owner(s) | Westar Energy (47%), Kansas City Power and Light Company (47%), Kansas Electric Power Cooperative (6%) |
Operator(s) | Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp. (WNOC) |
Architect(s) | Bechtel |
Reactor information | |
Reactors operational | 1 x 1,166 MW |
Reactor type(s) | pressurized water reactor |
Reactor supplier(s) | Westinghouse |
Power generation information | |
Annual generation | 10,369 GW·h |
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