Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant
| Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant | ||
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| Coordinates | 38 ° 14 '23 " N , 95 ° 41' 15" W | |
| Country: | United States | |
| Data | ||
| Owner: | Kansas Gas and Electric | |
| Operator: | Kansas Gas and Electric | |
| Project start: | 1973 | |
| Commercial operation: | Sept 3, 1985 | |
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Active reactors (gross): |
1 (1213 MW) | |
| Energy fed in in 2006: | 9,350 GWh | |
| Energy fed in since commissioning: | 194,731 GWh | |
| Website: | Side of the operator (English) | |
| Was standing: | January 7, 2009 | |
| The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation . | ||
The Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant 3.5 miles northeast of Burlington and north of New Strawn in Coffey County , Kansas, United States, about 55 miles south of the capital, Topeka , 90 miles southwest of Kansas City and 120 miles northeast of Wichita is the only nuclear power plant in Kansas.
The reactor
The nuclear power plant has a pressurized water reactor with a net electrical output of 1166 MWe . The reactor comes from Westinghouse and has four loops and a dry containment . It produces electricity to supply 800,000 houses. One megawatt can supply 800 homes in Kansas with electricity. By September 2008, the power plant had generated 10,369.136 million kilowatt hours of electricity. The capacity factor was 101.5%. The architect was the Bechtel Corporation .
history
Construction began on May 31, 1977. On June 12, 1985, the nuclear power plant was synchronized with the power grid for the first time and began commercial operation on September 3, 1985. The operating license issued on April 6, 1985 was due to expire on November 3, 2025. However, on September 27, 2006, the operator applied for an extension of the license by 20 years. It was extended in November 2008 to March 11, 2045. This marked the forty-ninth time that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) renewed the license of one of 104 commercial reactors in operation in the United States. The Wolf Creek Nuclear Corporation occasionally listed some alleged milestones in the profitability of its nuclear power plant on its homepage, including areas of the lowest production costs per megawatt hour and the longest operating times without shutdown.
Location and security
Due to the earthquake-prone situation, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates the annual risk of an accident that could affect the reactor core at 1 in 55,556, according to a study. In 2008, Wolf Creek's main coolant line suffered from stress corrosion cracking , which led to a reassessment of the control of the loss of coolant accident in Swiss nuclear power plants.
Others
The power plant can be seen many miles from Kansas Highway 75. The power plant is located on the Wolf Creek reservoir. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Learning Center is located near the power plant, which includes a control room simulator. The nuclear power plant is owned by Great Plains Energy Inc's Kansas City Power & Light (47 percent), Westar Energy Inc (47 percent) and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative Inc (6 percent). These owners together form the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (WCNOC) subsidiary . The WCNOC is responsible for accounting, among other things. The operator / licensee is also Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation. The nuclear power plant occupies 9,818 hectares of the 11,800 hectares controlled by the owner. The power plant was named after the lake on which it is located ( Wolf Creek Lake ). This lake also supplies the cooling water for the reactor.
In addition to generating electricity, the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant is also of economic importance to Coffey County and the state of Kansas. This is evident in a study of the economic benefits of the nuclear power plant carried out by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI). The study found the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant contributes $ 165 million annually to the local economy and state in wages, purchases and taxes.
Data of the reactor blocks
The Wolf Creek nuclear power plant has a total of one block :
| Reactor block | Reactor type | net power |
gross power |
start of building | Network synchronization |
Commercialization of essential operation |
switching off processing |
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| Wolf Creek | Pressurized water reactor | 1166 MW | 1213 MW | 05/31/1977 | 06/12/1985 | 09/03/1985 |
swell
- ↑ a b c NRC: Wolf Creek 1 (English)
- ↑ a b c d NRC renews Kansas Wolf Creek reactor license (English)
- ↑ a b c Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation - About Wolf Creek ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (English)
- ↑ a b c Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant - New Strawn, Kansas (English)
- ↑ a b c Power Reactor Information System of the IAEA (English)
- ↑ a b c US Nuclear Plants - Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant (English)
- ↑ a b Kansas' nuclear plant license renewed through 2045 - KTKA.com (English)
- ↑ NRC APPROVES LICENSE RENEWAL FOR WOLF CREEK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT FOR AN ADDITIONAL 20 YEARS ( 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. (English)
- ↑ http://www.wcnoc.com/ ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , last accessed January 7, 2009.
- ↑ What are the odds? US nuke plants ranked by quake risk (English)
- ↑ Bill Dedman, Nuclear neighbors: Population rises near US reactors (English)
- ↑ www.ensi.ch (pdf)
