Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant

Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant
Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant from across the Hudson River
location
Coordinates	41 ° 16 '11 "  N , 73 ° 57' 8"  W Coordinates: 41 ° 16 '11 "  N , 73 ° 57' 8"  W.
Country:	United States
Data
Owner:	Entergy Corporation
Operator:	Entergy Corporation
Project start:	1955
Commercial operation:	Oct. 1, 1962
Active reactors (gross):	2 (2,127 MW)
Decommissioned reactors (gross):	1 (277 MW)
Energy fed in in 2010:	16,320.64 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning:	419,830.43 GWh
Website:	The nuclear power plant on the side of the operator (English)
Was standing:	June 9, 2011
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Indian Point Energy Center ( English Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC)) consists of three pressurized water reactors of which only the third still is in operation. It is located in Buchanan (New York) on the Hudson River , which is important for the drinking water supply of New York, 55 kilometers north of central New York City . 6 percent of the US population, nearly 20 million people, live within 50 miles. The nuclear power plant is located in a seismically relatively active area.

The reactor block 1 was in operation from 1962 to 1974. Blocks 2 and 3, built by Westinghouse , had been in commercial operation since 1974 and 1976, respectively. According to an agreement reached at the beginning of 2017, reactor 2 was shut down on April 30, 2020, and reactor 3 is to follow in April 2021.

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the nuclear power plant has been considered to be at risk of terrorism because it is located on the flight paths of commercial aircraft. After these attacks, it was calculated how resistant the containment would be in the event of an aircraft crash or attack. In some scenarios, the safe continued operation of the nuclear power plant appears to be endangered. The extension of the operating license ('recertification') to more than 40 years was also controversial due to numerous operational incidents (see next section).

Accidents

On April 6, 2007, a fire broke out in two transformers. Smaller explosions in the non-nuclear area followed. Nobody was injured.

In May 2009 it became known that parts of the discharge for the emergency cooling system had rusted through. The last inspection of the damaged pipe is said to have taken place around 1973.

On May 10, 2015, a transformer burned in the non-nuclear area. The fire was extinguished after 25 minutes and the NPP was shut down. Eyewitnesses spoke of an explosion and smoke moving over the facility. Allegedly there was no danger to the residents.

There is said to be a leak in the cooling pool through which radioactivity escapes into the groundwater. On February 6, 2016, Andrew Cuomo , the governor of the US state New York, announced that "alarmingly high" radiation levels had been detected at the nuclear power plant; apparently tritium contaminated water leaked from the power plant. Up to 296 Bq per liter were measured in the groundwater of neighboring towns , the limit is 0.45 Bq.

Data of the reactor blocks

The Indian Point nuclear power plant has a total of three blocks :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Indian Point-1	Pressurized water reactor	257 MW	277 MW	05/01/1956	09/16/1962	10/01/1962	October 31, 1974
Indian Point-2	Pressurized water reactor	1020 MW	1062 MW	10/14/1966	06/26/1973	08/01/1974	04/30/2020
Indian Point-3	Pressurized water reactor	1025 MW	1065 MW	08/13/1969	04/27/1976	08/30/1976	(April 30, 2021)

See also

• List of nuclear power plants
• List of the most powerful nuclear reactors

Web links

Commons : Indian Point Energy Center  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Plague: Indian Point (USA)
• Indian Point: From Amusement Park to Power Plant NY TIMES 8apr03 (English)
• Indian Point site (English)
• Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition (IPSEC )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://innovationtrail.org/post/indian-point-closure-causes-power-dilemma-new-york
2. ↑ https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsindian-point-2-permanently-closes-7904262
3. ↑ https://eu.lohud.com/story/news/local/indian-point/2020/05/01/indian-point-unit-2-reactor-shut-down-permanently/3063995001/
4. ↑ ^{a b} Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant to Close by 2021 . In: The New York Times , January 6, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
5. ^ Court rules against Entergy on Indian Point license renewal (23 November 2016)
6. ↑ $ 1.2 Million Fine for Indian Point Fire (March 27, 2012)
7. ↑ heise.de May 4, 2009: Rusted nuclear power plant
8. ↑ FAZ.net: Fire in a nuclear power plant near New York
9. ↑ Information from the NRC (English)
10. ↑ spiegel.de February 7, 2016: Contaminated water: Incident in New York nuclear power plant
11. ↑ www.governor.ny.gov February 6, 2016: Statement from Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Regarding Indian Point Nuclear Facility ; see also list of other articles on this website
12. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)
13. ↑ Nuklearforum.ch: USA: Indian-Point-2 finally shut down from May 1, 2020 , accessed on May 2, 2020