Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant

Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant
The Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant
location
Coordinates	42 ° 53 '56 "  N , 70 ° 51' 3"  W Coordinates: 42 ° 53 '56 "  N , 70 ° 51' 3"  W.
Country:	United States
Data
Owner:	Florida Power & Light Company
Operator:	Florida Power & Light Company
Project start:	1973
Commercial operation:	Aug 19, 1990
Active reactors (gross):	1 (1,296 MW)
Construction discontinued (gross):	1 (1199 MW)
Energy fed in since commissioning:	132,994 GWh
Was standing:	March 31, 2008
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant , better known as Seabrook Station, is located near Seabrook, New Hampshire , about 40 miles north of Boston and 10 miles south of Portsmouth in the United States .

Initially, two reactors were planned, but the second was never completed due to delays in construction and massive cost overruns.

The power plant was initially owned by more than ten different owners, most of whom sold their shares in 2002 for a total of 837 million US dollars to FPL Energy , a subsidiary of the FPL Group , which now owns 88.2 percent. The rest belongs to municipal institutions. The purchase price includes the decommissioning fund, nuclear fuel and components of the discarded second block.

The reactor

The reactor 1 of the nuclear power plant is a pressurized water reactor from Westinghouse with a net electrical output of 1244  MWe and a gross output of 1296 MWe. The system is cooled with water from the Atlantic .

Construction and commissioning

Construction of the nuclear power plant began on July 7, 1976. The opponents of the power plant founded the Clamshell Alliance in 1976 to protest against the construction of the power plant. There were several small demonstrations. More than 2,000 members of the Clamshell Alliance occupied the site in April 1977. 1,414 of the activists were arrested and detained for two weeks. On May 29, 1990 the nuclear power plant was one of the last plants in the USA to be synchronized with the power grid for the first time after a long construction period. The plant went into commercial operation on August 19, 1990.

Shutdown

The shutdown of the plant is planned for 2026, as it has not yet received the 20-year extension of the operating license that is now common in the USA.

Side shot of block one

Data of the reactor blocks

The Seabrook nuclear power plant has one block , another block has been discarded:

Reactor block	Reactor type	net power	gross power	start of building	Network synchronization	Commercialization of essential operation	switching off processing
Seabrook-1	Pressurized water reactor	1244 MW	1296 MW	07/07/1976	May 29, 1990	August 19, 1990	(still) planned for 2026
Seabrook-2	Pressurized water reactor	1149 MW	1199 MW	07/01/1976	-	-	Project canceled on 01/01/1988

See also

Commons : Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• List of nuclear power plants
• List of nuclear facilities

Individual evidence

1. ^ Seabrook Nuclear Power Station, New Hampshire
2. ↑ USA: Seabrook purchase completed  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ The Siege of Seabrook
4. ↑ List of nuclear power plants
5. ↑ Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA : "United States of America: Nuclear Power Reactors - Alphabetic" (English)
6. ↑ Seabrook 2 in the IAEA's PRIS ( Memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)