Braidwood Nuclear Power Plant

Braidwood Nuclear Power Plant
location
Coordinates	41 ° 14 '39 "  N , 88 ° 13' 43"  W Coordinates: 41 ° 14 '39 "  N , 88 ° 13' 43"  W.
Country:	United States
Data
Owner:	Exelon Corporation
Operator:	Exelon Corporation
Project start:	1972
Commercial operation:	July 29, 1988
Active reactors (gross):	2 (2,453 MW)
Energy fed in since commissioning:	294,215 GWh
Website:	www.exeloncorp.com
Was standing:	March 17, 2008
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Braidwood nuclear power plant ( English Braidwood Nuclear Generation Station ) with two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors is located in Will County in the northeast of the US state Illinois .

history

The nuclear power plant has two reactor blocks, which were approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in May 2001 to increase their output by five percent each. The reactors have been operated by the energy supply company Exelon since the Commonwealth Edison company was taken over in 2000 and have a combined output of 2,453 megawatts. This makes the nuclear power plant the most powerful in the US state of Illinois.

In March 2006, several lawsuits were filed against Exelon and Commonwealth Edison for tritium releases into the local water system between 1996 and 2003.

Operating license

In the USA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) grants an operating license for a nuclear power plant for a period of up to 40 years. The 40 year period was originally based on the fixed asset depreciation period . The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 allows the operating license to be extended (even several times) by 20 years at a time.

The original operating license for Block 1 was granted to the operator Exelon Generation Co., LLC on July 2, 1987 by the NRC until October 17, 2026. It was extended on January 27, 2016 to October 17, 2046 .

The original permit for Block 2 was granted on May 20, 1988 until December 18, 2027. It was extended on January 27, 2016 to December 18, 2047 .

Data of the reactor blocks

The Braidwood nuclear power plant has a total of two blocks :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	operating permit	switching off processing
Braidwood-1	Pressurized water reactor	1178 MW	1240 MW	December 31, 1975	07/12/1987	07/29/1988	10/17/2046
Braidwood-2	Pressurized water reactor	1152 MW	1213 MW	December 31, 1975	May 25, 1988	10/17/1988	12/18/2047

See also

• List of nuclear power plants

Web links

Commons : Braidwood Nuclear Power Plant  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• exeloncorp.com: Braidwood Generating Station
• Plague: Braidwood (USA)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fact Sheet on Power Uprates for Nuclear Plants ( English ) Nuclear Regulatory Commission. February 22, 2008. Retrieved July 30, 2008.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Illinois Sues Exelon for Radioactive tritium releases Since 1996 ( English ) Environment News Service. March 21, 2006. Retrieved February 11, 2009.
3. ↑ Modern Erin Brokovich Story - 11 Families File Suit over Braidwood Nuclear Plant Waste Contamination ( English ) PR Web. March 17, 2006. Retrieved February 11, 2009.
4. ↑ Exelon Nuclear Responds to AG's Announcement of Civil Penalties ( English , PDF) Exelon Nuclear. March 16, 2006. Accessed on February 11, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Backgrounder on Reactor License Renewal. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), accessed August 18, 2016 . 
6. ^ Subsequent License Renewal Background. NRC, accessed August 18, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Braidwood Station, Unit 1. NRC, accessed August 18, 2016 . 
8. ^ ^{A b} NRC Renews Operating Licenses of Braidwood Nuclear Power Plant in Illinois. (PDF 360 KB) NRC, January 27, 2016, accessed on August 18, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Braidwood Station, Unit 2. NRC, accessed August 18, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)