Haddam Neck nuclear power plant

Haddam Neck nuclear power plant
location
Coordinates	41 ° 28 '55 "  N , 72 ° 29' 57"  W Coordinates: 41 ° 28 '55 "  N , 72 ° 29' 57"  W.
Country:	United States
Data
Owner:	Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Corporation
Operator:	Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Corporation
Project start:	1962
Commercial operation:	Jan. 1, 1968
Shutdown:	Dec 5, 1996
Decommissioned reactors (gross):	1 (603 MW)
Energy fed in since commissioning:	105,650 GWh
Was standing:	March 21, 2008
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The nuclear power plant Haddam Neck (also known as nuclear power plant Connecticut Yankee known) near Haddam Neck, Connecticut , had a pressurized water reactor . The Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Station Corporation was owned and operated.

history

The power plant was built from May 1, 1964. The reactor went into operation on August 7, 1967. The reactor had an output of 603 MWel. and was thus by far the most powerful of those operated worldwide up to that point in time (for comparison: the previously most powerful plant in the USA, Indian Point Block 1, had an output of 285 MW, Gundremmingen A had 250 MW).

The reactor was shut down on December 5, 1996. The reason was the determination by the American supervisory authority, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission , that the emergency cooling system no longer corresponded to the current state of science and technology and the operator's decision to refrain from retrofitting for economic reasons. The dismantling of the plant was successfully completed in 2006.

Data of the reactor blocks

There was a block :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Haddam Neck	Pressurized water reactor	560 MW	603 MW	05/01/1964	08/07/1967	01/01/1968	05.12.1996

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nukesafe: The Loss-of-fluid test program, 1991
2. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)