Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant

Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant
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location
Coordinates	32 ° 17 '53 "  N , 97 ° 47' 8"  W Coordinates: 32 ° 17 '53 "  N , 97 ° 47' 8"  W.
Country:	United States
Data
Owner:	Energy Future Holdings Corporation
Operator:	Energy Future Holdings Corporation
Project start:	1972
Commercial operation:	Aug 13, 1990
Active reactors (gross):	2 (2378 MW)
Energy fed in since commissioning:	236,788 GWh
Was standing:	March 18, 2008
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Comanche Peak nuclear power plant ( English Comanche Peak Nuclear Generating Station ) with two pressurized water reactors is located in Somervell County in the US state of Texas .

history

Construction of both blocks began on December 19, 1974. The power plant is operated by Energy Future Holdings Corporation. The first block went online on April 24, 1990. The second block followed three years later on April 9, 1993.

The delay in commissioning the two reactors was caused by opposition from environmentalists and a private vigilante group. The National Regulatory Commission (NRC) had to keep improving the safety standards. Construction costs, originally estimated at $ 779 million, increased to $ 7.7 billion.

The two identical Westinghouse reactors have a net electrical output of 1218 and 1207 megawatts and a gross output of 1259 and 1250 megawatts, respectively. Unit 2 was the penultimate US reactor that went online; the last was Watts Bar 1 .

In June 2008 an increase in benefits was approved.

In December 2016 it became known that Comanche Peak was also affected by the Creusot Forge scandal over falsified certificates. Parts of the steam generator of reactor 1 come from the polluted Areva subsidiary.

Data of the reactor blocks

The Comanche Peak nuclear power plant has two blocks :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Comanche Peak-1	Pressurized water reactor	1218 MW	1259 MW	December 19, 1974	April 24, 1990	08/13/1990	08.02.2030 planned
Comanche Peak-2	Pressurized water reactor	1207 MW	1250 MW	December 19, 1974	04/09/1993	08/03/1993	02/02/2033 planned

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1. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 16/1988: The voracious monster of April 18, 1988
2. ↑ http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/IT_Comanche_Peak_to_increase_output_3006081.html
3. ↑ http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0817/ML081790334.pdf
4. ↑ https://nrcpublicblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/ml17009a275.pdf
5. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)

Web links

• Plague: Comanche Peak (USA)

See also

• List of nuclear power plants