Fort St. Vrain nuclear power plant

Fort St. Vrain nuclear power plant
Fort St. Vrain nuclear power plant
location
Coordinates	40 ° 14 '40 "  N , 104 ° 52' 27"  W Coordinates: 40 ° 14 '40 "  N , 104 ° 52' 27"  W.
Country:	United States
Data
Owner:	Xcel Energy
Operator:	Xcel Energy
Project start:	1965
Commercial operation:	July 1, 1979
Shutdown:	Aug 29, 1989
Decommissioned reactors (gross):	1 (342 MW)
Energy fed in since commissioning:	5,420 GWh
Was standing:	March 18, 2008
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Fort St. Vrain nuclear power plant ( English Fort St. Vrain Nuclear Generating Station ) with a high-temperature reactor was located near Platteville in the US state of Colorado .

history

The reactor at Fort St. Vrain was one of two high temperature reactors in the United States . Construction began on September 1, 1968. The reactor had an output of 342 megawatts. The reactor went into operation on December 11, 1976. After its closure in 1989, the building was demolished until 1992. The USD 174 million dismantling was completed in 1997 and a gas power plant was built on the site.

Data of the reactor block

The Fort St. Vrain nuclear power plant had one block :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Fort St. Vrain	High temperature reactor	330 MW	342 MW	09/01/1968	December 11, 1976	07/01/1979	08/29/1989

Web links

Commons : Fort St. Vrain Nuclear Power Plant  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)