Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 57 '40 " N , 72 ° 51' 54" W | |
| Country: | United States | |
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| Owner: | Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) | |
| Operator: | Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) | |
| Project start: | 1967 | |
| Commercial operation: | never | |
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Decommissioned reactors (gross): |
1 (849 MW) | |
| Energy fed in since commissioning: | 0 GWh | |
| Was standing: | August 11, 2008 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
The Shoreham nuclear power plant ( English Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant , abbreviation SNP ) is located on Long Island Sound in East Shoreham, New York , on the north bank of Long Island in the United States , 60 kilometers east of Manhattan . The power plant never fed into the power grid. It is owned by the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA).
reactor
In 1968 it was decided to build the power plant with an output of 820 megawatts instead of the originally planned 540 megawatts. The reactor in Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, it was a boiling water reactor of General Electric . The Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant is the virtual twin of the first block in the Millstone Nuclear Power Plant , which was also ordered in the 1960s.
The reactor had a net output of 820 MW and a gross output of 849 MW.
history
On April 20, 1965, LILCO decided to build a nuclear power station in Suffolk County . For this purpose, a 455 hectare site between the villages of Shoreham and Wading River was purchased. The power plant should be completed by 1973. However, the construction was not approved until April 12, 1973 after 32 months of hearing by the United States Atomic Energy Commission . Construction began on November 1, 1972. By the end of the 1970s, the price estimate had risen to two billion dollars. Due to the reactor accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in 1979, the number of opponents of nuclear power increased considerably. On a rainy Sunday, June 3, 1979, there was a demonstration in Shoreham with 15,000 demonstrators. 571 of them were arrested by the police. On February 17, 1983, a vote of 15: 1 showed that the district could not be safely evacuated in the event of an accident. On August 12, 1983, there was a problem with the crankshaft in one of the three emergency diesel engines. On August 1, 1986, the reactor was synchronized with the power grid for the first time, but never went into commercial operation and thus did not produce any electricity. On April 20, 1989, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved the full-load operation of the power plant. However, the power plant was shut down on May 1, 1989. On July 19, 1991, the NRC approved the dismantling of the power station. In 1992 LILCO sold the power station for one dollar to New York State, which agreed to dismantle the power station. On October 12, 1994, the power plant was finally shut down because of the local opposition. The spent fuel elements were unloaded from the reactor core and temporarily taken to the fuel store. Only 602 curies were measured in the reactor pressure vessel and internals and about thirty millicuries in surface contamination was measured in the remaining reactor systems and structures. Portions of the remaining contaminated systems contain small amounts of radioactivity and the components have been removed, packaged, transported and disposed of. The decommissioning activity program was estimated to cost $ 186 million. Due to the short running time, the nuclear power plant is not contaminated outside of the three large structures.
The power plant cost six billion US dollars . Taxpayers have to pay $ 4 billion, the equivalent of 16 cents per dollar in taxes. This made the power plant 85 times more expensive than the original plan of 65 to 75 million US dollars.
Others
The structurally identical Millstone 1 nuclear power plant was completed and commissioned at a cost of $ 101 million and ran for two decades.
The rotors of the low pressure turbine at Shoreham are currently in use at the Davis Besse nuclear power plant .
The fuel elements were reused in the Limerick nuclear power plant . They cost the Limerick operator nearly $ 50 million.
Data of the reactor blocks
The Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant has one block :
| Reactor block | Reactor type | net power |
gross power |
start of building | Network synchronization |
Commercialization of essential operation |
switching off processing |
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| Shoreham | Boiling water reactor | 820 MW | 849 MW | November 1, 1972 | August 1, 1986 | - | May 1, 1989 |
swell
- ↑ a b c d e f Nukeworker - Shoreham ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ satellite image of the power station with text on the power plant (English)
- ↑ Shoreham Nuclear Facility Analysis, by Steven J. Smith ( Memento of September 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ a b c Lights Out at Shoreham - Newsday.com ( Memento from December 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j LIPA Explores New Uses for Shoreham Nuclear Plant Site - redOrbit ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ a b c d e Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails.aspx?current=659
- ↑ a b LIPA Creates Advisory Committee for Defunct Shoreham Nuclear Plan Site
- ↑ Shoreham Nuclear - Exponent (English)
- ↑ https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails.aspx?current=659
- ↑ Lights off on Long Island. (Shoreham nuclear power plant to be shut down) ( Memento of the original dated September 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ What do we do with Shoreham? - LI BIZ BLOG ( Memento from October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Lilco Assures NRC of Its Shoreham Nuclear Plant's Readiness (English)
- LIPA explores new uses for Shoreham nuclear plant site - Topix (English)