Boiling Nuclear Superheater
| Boiling Nuclear Superheater | ||
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| Coordinates | 18 ° 21 '55 " N , 67 ° 16' 8" W | |
| Country: | United States | |
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| Owner: | PREPA and DOE | |
| Operator: | PREPA and DOE | |
| Project start: | ||
| Shutdown: | 06/01/1968 | |
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Decommissioned reactors (gross): |
1 (18 MW) | |
| Website: | BONUS | |
| Was standing: | June 2008 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
The Boiling Nuclear Superheater ( BONUS ) was an experimental type of reactor.
history
One of two copies was in Rincon , northwest Puerto Rico . The construction of the reactor began in 1960, the experiments were ended in 1968 because of escalating costs and increasing technical problems. The facility was owned by the Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority (PRWRA) and the US Atomic Energy Commission . They dismantled the facility from 1969 to 1970. The fuel rods were brought back to the mainland, other inventory such as the contaminated reactor boilers were set in concrete on site. Originally, it was hoped that this would solve the problem, but in the 1990s and 2000s further contamination was recognized and had to be removed.
Today the site belongs to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), the successor to the PRWRA. Monitoring is carried out by the US Department of Energy (DOE), the successor organization to the United States Atomic Energy Commission .
Data of the reactor block
The Boiling Nuclear Superheater in Rincón had one block :
| Reactor block | Reactor type | net power |
gross power |
start of building | Network synchronization |
Commercial operation |
switching off processing |
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| BONUS | Boiling water reactor ( Superheater type ) | 17 MW | 18 MW | 01/01/1960 | 08/14/1964 | 09/01/1965 | 06/01/1968 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)
Web links
- Bonus at DOE
- photos
- Approval documents from 1960 (English; PDF file; 6 kB)
- Pictures and general plan
- Patent specification : Nuclear superheater for boiling water reactor
