Enrico Fermi nuclear power plant (USA)

Enrico Fermi nuclear power plant (USA)
Unit 2 of the Enrico Fermi nuclear power plant
location
Coordinates	41 ° 57 '50 "  N , 83 ° 15' 32"  W Coordinates: 41 ° 57 '50 "  N , 83 ° 15' 32"  W.
Country:	United States
Data
Owner:	DTE Energy (Detroit Edison)
Project start:	1955
Commercial operation:	08/05/1966
Active reactors (gross):	1 (1154 MW)
Decommissioned reactors (gross):	1 (65 MW)
Energy fed in since commissioning:	122,675 GWh
Was standing:	March 18, 2008
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Enrico Fermi nuclear power plant ( English Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station ) with a breeder reactor and a boiling water reactor is located in Frenchtown Charter Township in the US state of Michigan and is named after the nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi .

Enrico Fermi 1st

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Unit 1 was a prototype of a 65 megawatt breeder reactor. It was built from August 1, 1956. On August 5, 1966, it started operations. On October 5, 1966, there was a core meltdown in some parts of the reactor core . This accident was triggered by a fragment that got into the cooling circuit. Two of the 105 fuel assemblies melted. The reactor was shut down on November 29, 1972. The construction cost 135 million US dollars, but the reactor only produced electricity for 0.3 million US dollars until the accident.

Enrico Fermi 2

Unit 2 is a General Electric boiling water reactor . Construction began on September 26, 1972. On September 21, 1986, the reactor went online.

Enrico Fermi 3

The operator DTE Energy had shown interest in building another reactor at the Enrico Fermi site. For some time, licenses were organized for the construction of another block at the Enrico Fermi nuclear power plant. This process can take up to five years. The reactor should go online between 2015 and 2020 and cost around three billion US dollars. In May 2015, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a combined construction and operating license for Fermi 3, but DTE Energy announced that there are currently no plans to build it.

Aerial view of the nuclear power plant

Data of the reactor blocks

The Enrico Fermi 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
Enrico Fermi-1	Breeder	61 MW	65 MW	08/01/1956	08/05/1966	-	11/29/1972
Enrico Fermi-2	Boiling water reactor	1111 MW	1154 MW	09/26/1972	09/21/1986	01/23/1988	(Planned for 2025)

See also

• List of nuclear power plants
• List of nuclear facilities in the United States

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fermi, Unit 1. In: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). March 18, 2011, accessed on March 18, 2011 . 
2. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/1988/38/langsam-stirbt-der-schnelle-brueter/komplettansicht
3. ↑ http://www.freep.com/story/news/2015/04/30/fermi3-nuke-plant-approved/26659891/
4. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)