Hatch Nuclear Power Plant
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| Coordinates | 31 ° 56 '5 " N , 82 ° 20' 37" W | |
| Country: | United States | |
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| Owner: | Georgia Power Corporation | |
| Operator: | Southern Nuclear Operating Corporation | |
| Project start: | 1967 | |
| Commercial operation: | Dec. 31, 1975 | |
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Active reactors (gross): |
2 (1819 MW) | |
| Energy fed in since commissioning: | 303,485 GWh | |
| Website: | The nuclear power plant on the side of the operator | |
| Was standing: | March 21, 2008 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
The Hatch Nuclear Power Plant is located near Baxley , Georgia . The plant has two boiling water reactors . The operator is the Southern Nuclear Operating Corporation, a subsidiary of the Southern Company . The facility is named after Edwin I. Hatch , who was president from 1963 to 1975, then chairman of the supervisory board until his retirement.
Georgia Power, also a subsidiary of Southern Company, is the largest shareholder with 50.1%, followed by Oglethorpe Power Corporation (30%), Municipal Electrical Authority of Georgia (17.7%) and the city of Dalton (2.2 %).
Block 1
Unit 1 is a General Electric boiling water reactor with a net electrical output of 876 MWe and a gross output of 898 MWe. Construction began on September 30, 1969, it was first synchronized with the power grid on November 11, 1974 and went into commercial operation on December 31, 1975.
The shutdown is planned for 2034.
Block 2
Unit 2 is also a General Electric boiling water reactor, but with an output of 883 MWe net and 921 MWe gross. Construction began on December 27, 1972, the first network synchronization took place on September 22, 1978, and it went into commercial operation on September 5, 1979.
The shutdown is scheduled for 2038.
Accidents
On December 3, 1986, an accident occurred at a spent fuel storage facility on the site of the nuclear power plant, in which approximately 500,000 liters (141,000 gallons ) of radioactive water leaked from the storage pools. About 300,000 liters (84,000 gallons) of this got into a wetland area on the site of the power plant via rain drainage. The cause was incorrect operation by an employee.
On March 7, 2008 there was an emergency shutdown in Block 2 . The cause was an upgrade on a server in the administration area. The subsequent reboot meant that a control computer was no longer supplied with data in time. He interpreted this as a falling water level in Kern and then initiated the emergency shutdown. The incident again shows the danger of the connection between management networks (and external access) and control networks ( SCADA ). Such networks are usually only designed for internal and undisturbed data traffic.
Data of the reactor blocks
The Hatch 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 |
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| Hatch-1 | Boiling water reactor | 876 MW | 898 MW | 09/30/1969 | 11/11/1974 | December 31, 1975 | (Planned for 2034) |
| Hatch-2 | Boiling water reactor | 883 MW | 921 MW | December 27, 1972 | 09/22/1978 | 09/05/1979 | (Planned for 2038) |
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/accidents/accidents-1980's-06.htm
- ↑ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15140941/
- ↑ Hatch computer incident (English)
- ↑ Heise: shutdown after update
- ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)