Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant

Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant
Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant
location
Coordinates	39 ° 28 '4 "  N , 75 ° 32' 17"  W Coordinates: 39 ° 28 '4 "  N , 75 ° 32' 17"  W.
Country:	United States
Data
Owner:	PSEG Nuclear LLC
Operator:	PSEG Nuclear LLC
Project start:	1969
Commercial operation:	Dec. 20, 1986
Active reactors (gross):	1 (1139 MW)
Construction discontinued (gross):	1 (1118 MW)
Energy fed in since commissioning:	141,546 GWh
Was standing:	March 21, 2008
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station near Lower Alloway Creek Township, Salem County , New Jersey has a boiling water reactor . The owner and operator is PSEG Nuclear LLC. Next to the power plant is the Salem nuclear power plant .

Block 1

Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant

Unit 1 is a General Electric boiling water reactor with a net electrical output of 1059  MWe and a gross output of 1139 MWe. Construction began on March 1, 1976; it was synchronized with the power grid for the first time on August 1, 1986, and went into commercial operation on December 20, 1986. The natural draft wet cooling tower is 165 meters high.

The issued operating license expires on April 11, 2026, which is why the operator applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for an extension of 20 years on August 18, 2009 .

Incidents

After the simultaneous failure of two reactor cooling pumps, a reactor shutdown occurred on October 5, 2015.

Data of the reactor blocks

Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant consists of one operating block and one that is under construction :

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Hope Creek-1	Boiling water reactor	1059 MW	1139 MW	03/01/1976	08/01/1986	December 20, 1986	04/11/2026 License expiration date
Hope Creek-2	Boiling water reactor	1067 MW	1118 MW	03/01/1976			Construction abandoned on December 1st, 1981

swell

1. ^ NRC: Hope Creek - License Renewal Application ( English ) Nuclear Regulatory Commission. September 1, 2009. Retrieved September 20, 2009.
2. ↑ http://www.nj.com/salem/index.ssf/2015/09/hope_creek_nuclear_reactor_shuts_down_after_2_key.html
3. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)
4. ↑ Hope Creek 2 nuclear power plant at the IAEA's PRIS ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Hope Creek (English)

See also

• List of nuclear power plants