HB Robinson nuclear power plant
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| Coordinates | 34 ° 24 ′ 6 ″ N , 80 ° 9 ′ 31 ″ W | |
| Country: | United States | |
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| Owner: | Duke Energy | |
| Operator: | Duke Energy | |
| Project start: | 1967 | |
| Commercial operation: | March 7, 1971 | |
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Active reactors (gross): |
1 (745 MW) | |
| Energy fed in since commissioning: | 154,947 GWh | |
| Was standing: | March 18, 2008 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
The nuclear power plant HB Robinson ( English H. B. Robinson Nuclear Generating Station ) with a pressurized water reactor is located near Hartsville in Darlington County in the US state of South Carolina .
history
The HB Robinson 2 nuclear power plant has a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor . Today the owner is Duke Energy . Construction of the plant began on April 13, 1967. The reactor was commissioned on September 26, 1970. The first block of the power plant complex was a coal-fired power plant, which has since been shut down. The AKW-Bock was built later to increase the output of the power plant. He uses a specially created lake, Lake Robinson , to take cooling water .
Accidents
On March 28, 2010, a fire broke out in Block 2 during full load operation due to a cable defect that led to an electric arc. A voltage drop triggered by the fire led to the failure of a main coolant pump, which led to the reactor being shut down quickly. Following the fire, the primary circuit was cooled down, increasingly due to the extraction of steam via the heating steam lines of the reheater, which resulted in a safety feed. The reason that these consequences occurred after the cable defect was the failure to open a coupling switch between two busbars. In the further course of the event, there was a reduced supply of cooling water for the seals of the main coolant pumps and further cooling of the primary circuit. After the first fire, the renewed feed-in caused a high-energy arc due to an earth fault, which led to a second fire. The incident was originally classified as INES 1 by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) , but after further investigation by the NRC, the classification was upgraded to INES 2. This was justified in particular with additional faulty components and inadequacies in the control of the fault by the shift personnel.
Data of the reactor block
The HB Robinson nuclear power plant has one block :
| Reactor block | Reactor type | net power |
gross power |
start of building | Network synchronization |
Commercialization of essential operation |
switching off processing |
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| HB Robinson-2 | Pressurized water reactor | 710 MW | 745 MW | 04/13/1967 | 09/26/1970 | 07.03.1971 | (Planned for 2030) |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "ROBINSON-2" (English)