Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant

Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant
The power plant complex, to the right of the cooling towers, the nuclear reactor (block 3)
location
Coordinates	28 ° 57 '26 "  N , 82 ° 41' 56"  W Coordinates: 28 ° 57 '26 "  N , 82 ° 41' 56"  W.
Country:	United States
Data
Owner:	Progress Energy Inc.
Operator:	Progress Energy Corporation
Project start:	1967
Commercial operation:	March 13, 1977
Shutdown:	2013
Decommissioned reactors (gross):	1 (890 MW)
Energy fed in in 2006:	6954 GWh
Energy fed in since commissioning:	142,000 GWh
Website:	Side of the operator
Was standing:	February 16, 2006
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The decommissioned Crystal River nuclear power plant near Crystal River in Citrus County in Florida in the United States is the third block in the Crystal River power plant complex. Units 1 and 2 are coal units, Unit 3 is the nuclear reactor and Units 4 and 5 are coal units. The nuclear power plant is owned and operated by Progress Energy Inc.

The reactor / power

The Crystal River nuclear power plant consists of a pressurized water reactor . This has a net electrical output of 838  MW and a gross output of 890 MWe. It has two natural draft wet cooling towers .

Commissioning / shutdown

The construction of the power station block 3 of the power station complex started on September 25, 1968. The reactor became critical for the first time on January 14, 1977 . It was first synchronized with the power grid on January 30, 1977 and was in commercial power operation from March 13, 1977. On February 5, 2013, the operating company announced that the reactor, which had been shut down since September 2009, wanted to completely shut down and dismantle it. Instead, a gas power plant is to be built.

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  View of the nuclear reactor with its cooling towers

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  Sign at the entrance to the nuclear power plant

Data of the reactor block

The Crystal River power plant complex has one reactor block :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Crystal River-3	Pressurized water reactor	838 MW	890 MW	09/25/1968	01/30/1977	03/13/1977	09/30/2009

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1. ↑ Duke Energy ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 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) 
2. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)

See also

• List of nuclear power plants

Web links

• Side of the operator