McGuire Nuclear Power Plant
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 25 '57 " N , 80 ° 56' 54" W | |
| Country: | United States | |
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| Owner: | Duke Power Company | |
| Operator: | Duke Energy Corporation | |
| Commercial operation: | 1st December 1981 | |
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Active reactors (gross): |
2 (2316 MW) | |
| Energy fed in in 2011: | 17,855 GWh | |
| Energy fed in since commissioning: | 463,060 GWh | |
| Website: | Power plant side of the operator | |
| Was standing: | November 11, 2012 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
The McGuire nuclear power plant is located approximately 27 km northwest of the city of Charlotte in the US state of North Carolina and consists of two identical Westinghouse 4-loop pressurized water reactors . It draws its cooling water from Lake Norman , a reservoir created by damming the Catawba River . The two power plant blocks have a total electrical output of 2200 MW (net), their share in the nuclear power generation in the state of North Carolina is about 40%.
incident
On November 8, 2017, there was a transformer explosion on the site of the McGuire nuclear power plant , which resulted in a lot of smoke.
Ownership and naming
The McGuire nuclear power plant is owned by the Duke Power Company and operated by the Duke Energy Corporation . It is named after William McGuire, who was President of Duke Power from 1959 to 1971.
Term extension
The licenses to operate the systems originally expired on June 12, 2021 (Block 1) and March 3, 2023 (Block 2). On May 27, 2003, the NRC extended the operating license for both reactors by 20 years. This results in a new total operating time of 60 years per block.
Data of the reactor blocks
The McGuire nuclear power plant has two power plant blocks :
| Reactor block | Reactor type | net power |
gross power |
start of building | Network synchronization |
Commercialization of essential operation |
Shutdown (planned) |
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| McGuire-1 | Pressurized water reactor | 1100 MW | 1158 MW | 04/01/1971 | 09/12/1981 | December 01, 1981 | (Planned for 2041) |
| McGuire-2 | Pressurized water reactor | 1100 MW | 1158 MW | 04/01/1971 | 05/23/1983 | 03/01/1984 | (Planned for 2043) |
Reactor 2 was manufactured by Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij .
Web links
See also
- List of nuclear power plants
- List of nuclear facilities in the United States
- Nuclear power in the United States
- List of the most powerful nuclear reactors
Footnotes
- ↑ http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article183413686.html
- ↑ Report on the death of William McGuire ( memento of the original from August 20, 2012) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 11, 2012.
- ↑ Information from the NRC on license renewal (term) (PDF; 3.7 MB)
- ↑ Data overview McGuire-1 of the NRC (English)
- ↑ Data overview McGuire-2 of the NRC (English)
- ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors" (English)
- ↑ spiegel.de November 16, 2012: German nuclear power plants free of Belgian disease
