Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station

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The nuclear power plant Brunswick ( engl. Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station ) is a nuclear power plant with two boiling water reactors north of the town of Southport in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The nuclear power plant is on the Brunswick County, the County in which it is named.

History

The configuration of the nuclear power plant began in 1968. Both reactors were built by General Electric, the construction started February 7, 1970.

The reactor block Brunswick- 2 was completed as the first of the two reactor units. He reached his first criticality on 20 March 1975. On 29 April 1975, the reactor block was then connected to the grid, on November 3, 1975 began commercial operation. Nearly a year later, the reactor block Brunswick -1 on October 8, 1976, for the first time critical. He then went on December 4, 1976 to the network and on 18 March 1977 in commercial operation.

The nuclear power plant Brunswick became the first nuclear power plant in North Carolina. In the 1980s, McGuire and the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant were taken two more nuclear power plants in the same U.S. state in operating the nuclear power plant.

On 25 June 2006, the operating licenses for the two reactors by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the United States were extended by 20 years at the request of the operator. The operating license for the reactor block Brunswick- 1 ends, therefore, on 8 September 2036 the. Brunswick for the block -2 on December 27, 2034

Plant

Operators and main owner of the two reactor units is Progress Energy (formerly Carolina Power & Light ), an energy company from North Carolina, the three other nuclear power plants operating in the southeastern United States. Progress Energy holds 81.7 % stake in the Brunswick nuclear power plant, while the remaining 18.3 % are held by the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency.

The reactor plant covers an area of about 4.9 km2 and is adjacent to agriculturally used area, wetlands and forests. The cooling water for the two boiling water reactors comes from the Cape Fear River. About 3.8 million liters of filtered water are pumped from the river in the cooling systems of two nuclear units per minute. The heated water then flows through a 9 km long discharge channel under the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway passes near Oak Iceland in the Atlantic.

Both reactors were initially operated with a net electrical output of 790 megawatts ( MW). In 1992, the output is reduced to 767 MW was (Brunswick- 1) or 754 MW (Brunswick -2). Starting in 1998, then a gradual increase in performance on the current status of 938 and 937 MW was made. This was done by upgrading and refurbishment of much of the equipment, especially the main transformers, cooling systems and the high pressure turbine. The thermal performance of both reactor units is 2784 MW.

The two reactors are used for base load power supply and always run during power operation at full power. The nuclear fuel is replaced about every two years. The burned fuel rods are transported to temporary storage in the spent fuel pools of the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant. In 2002, the reactor block Brunswick -1 broke with 707 days of continuous operation of the run-time world record for light water reactors.

The nuclear power station supplies about one million households in the southeastern United States with electricity. Since the commissioning of over 280,000 GWh were fed into the power grid. A visitor center is located about 1.5 km from the reactor system and displays over 30 exhibits on the topics of nuclear energy, energy efficiency and electricity.

Data of the reactor units

The nuclear power plant Brunswick has two power plant units:

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