Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant
Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant | ||
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Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant from across the Hudson River | ||
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Coordinates | 41 ° 16 '11 " N , 73 ° 57' 8" W | |
Country: | United States | |
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Owner: | Entergy Corporation | |
Operator: | Entergy Corporation | |
Project start: | 1955 | |
Commercial operation: | Oct. 1, 1962 | |
Active reactors (gross): |
2 (2,127 MW) | |
Decommissioned reactors (gross): |
1 (277 MW) | |
Energy fed in in 2010: | 16,320.64 GWh | |
Energy fed in since commissioning: | 419,830.43 GWh | |
Website: | The nuclear power plant on the side of the operator (English) | |
Was standing: | June 9, 2011 | |
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . |
The Indian Point Energy Center ( English Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC)) consists of three pressurized water reactors of which only the third still is in operation. It is located in Buchanan (New York) on the Hudson River , which is important for the drinking water supply of New York, 55 kilometers north of central New York City . 6 percent of the US population, nearly 20 million people, live within 50 miles. The nuclear power plant is located in a seismically relatively active area.
The reactor block 1 was in operation from 1962 to 1974. Blocks 2 and 3, built by Westinghouse , had been in commercial operation since 1974 and 1976, respectively. According to an agreement reached at the beginning of 2017, reactor 2 was shut down on April 30, 2020, and reactor 3 is to follow in April 2021.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the nuclear power plant has been considered to be at risk of terrorism because it is located on the flight paths of commercial aircraft. After these attacks, it was calculated how resistant the containment would be in the event of an aircraft crash or attack. In some scenarios, the safe continued operation of the nuclear power plant appears to be endangered. The extension of the operating license ('recertification') to more than 40 years was also controversial due to numerous operational incidents (see next section).
Accidents
On April 6, 2007, a fire broke out in two transformers. Smaller explosions in the non-nuclear area followed. Nobody was injured.
In May 2009 it became known that parts of the discharge for the emergency cooling system had rusted through. The last inspection of the damaged pipe is said to have taken place around 1973.
On May 10, 2015, a transformer burned in the non-nuclear area. The fire was extinguished after 25 minutes and the NPP was shut down. Eyewitnesses spoke of an explosion and smoke moving over the facility. Allegedly there was no danger to the residents.
There is said to be a leak in the cooling pool through which radioactivity escapes into the groundwater. On February 6, 2016, Andrew Cuomo , the governor of the US state New York, announced that "alarmingly high" radiation levels had been detected at the nuclear power plant; apparently tritium contaminated water leaked from the power plant. Up to 296 Bq per liter were measured in the groundwater of neighboring towns , the limit is 0.45 Bq.
Data of the reactor blocks
The Indian Point nuclear power plant has a total of three 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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Indian Point-1 | Pressurized water reactor | 257 MW | 277 MW | 05/01/1956 | 09/16/1962 | 10/01/1962 | October 31, 1974 |
Indian Point-2 | Pressurized water reactor | 1020 MW | 1062 MW | 10/14/1966 | 06/26/1973 | 08/01/1974 | 04/30/2020 |
Indian Point-3 | Pressurized water reactor | 1025 MW | 1065 MW | 08/13/1969 | 04/27/1976 | 08/30/1976 | (April 30, 2021) |
See also
Web links
- Plague: Indian Point (USA)
- Indian Point: From Amusement Park to Power Plant NY TIMES 8apr03 (English)
- Indian Point site (English)
- Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition (IPSEC )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://innovationtrail.org/post/indian-point-closure-causes-power-dilemma-new-york
- ↑ https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsindian-point-2-permanently-closes-7904262
- ↑ https://eu.lohud.com/story/news/local/indian-point/2020/05/01/indian-point-unit-2-reactor-shut-down-permanently/3063995001/
- ↑ a b Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant to Close by 2021 . In: The New York Times , January 6, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ^ Court rules against Entergy on Indian Point license renewal (23 November 2016)
- ↑ $ 1.2 Million Fine for Indian Point Fire (March 27, 2012)
- ↑ heise.de May 4, 2009: Rusted nuclear power plant
- ↑ FAZ.net: Fire in a nuclear power plant near New York
- ↑ Information from the NRC (English)
- ↑ spiegel.de February 7, 2016: Contaminated water: Incident in New York nuclear power plant
- ↑ www.governor.ny.gov February 6, 2016: Statement from Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Regarding Indian Point Nuclear Facility ; see also list of other articles on this website
- ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)
- ↑ Nuklearforum.ch: USA: Indian-Point-2 finally shut down from May 1, 2020 , accessed on May 2, 2020