Ginna Nuclear Generating Station

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The nuclear power plant Robert Emmett Ginna, widely known as Ginna ( emphasis: gun - NAY ) is located on the south shore of Lake Ontario nuclear power plant. It is located in Ontario, New York in Wayne County, about 20 miles east of Rochester. Ginna is one of the oldest nuclear power plants in the U.S. that are still on the network. It was on December 2, 1969 to the network and consists of a single pressurized water reactor from Westinghouse, which is similar to those in Point Beach, Kewaunee, and Prairie Iceland.

The reactor

There is a special feature regarding the reactor design: At the sides the reactor dome with walls built over, however, the roof is open. Therefore, considering the reactor building from the sides, it looks like a large, windowless factory, similar to the numerous General Electric boiling water reactors. Only from the air can be seen through the open roof of the dome of the pressurized water reactor. Zugebaute pressurized water reactors with rectangular reactor buildings are generally an exception, a dome or cylinder is the rule. In the U.S., only do not have the Unit 2 nuclear power plant in Millstone and the two reactors at the nuclear power plant Point Beach this style.

The power plant was named after Robert Emmett Ginna, a former chairman of the energy provider Rochester Gas & Electric, which was one of the first promoters of nuclear power as power generation resource in the United States.

Owner and operator of Ginna is CENG after the company acquired the plant in 2004 by Rochester Gas and Electric. After Constellation Energy was acquired in March 2012, is its new parent company, Exelon, the new owner of the power plant.

Incidents

Ginna was posted on January 25, 1982 the scene of a nuclear accident, after the tube of a steam generator was broken and a small amount of radioactive steam was released. The leak was 93 minutes long and led to an emergency message. The break was caused by a frying pan large object that was left behind during maintenance in the boiler room. This was not the first time that there had been in an American nuclear reactor to a tube rupture, however, the temporal proximity has directed to the accident at the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Iceland considerable attention to the incident in the Ginna nuclear power plant. A total of 485.3 Curie noble gas and 1.15 millicuries of iodine -131 were released, as well as the reactor lost 64 hectoliters contaminated water.

In 1996, the original two Westinghouse steam pressure generators were replaced by two new Babcock & Wilcox, while the vapor generator was replaced, which was damaged in 1982 and subsequently repaired. This project enabled some years later, a power increase of the reactor and was a major factor in the approval of a 20 - year term extension ( originally to 2009 ).

Future of the power plant

Due to the expansion of renewable energy and increased Fracking electricity prices in the region of Upstate New York from $ 55 per megawatt hour have fallen to $ 32. Similar developments in other regions have previously performed in 2013 on decisions concerning the decommissioning of nuclear power plants as Kewaunee or Vermont Yankee. Because the block Ginna has relatively little power, is old and single, and losses enters, sees him Mark Cooper in his report among the 12 U.S. nuclear power plants are shut down most likely in the coming years.

Surrounding population

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission provides fixed two emergency zones around nuclear power plants: Within a 10- mile radius of an exclusion zone be established in order to avoid contact of the population with the radioactive cloud. Within a radius of 50 miles restrictions on radioactively contaminated food and water are to be adopted.

In 2010 66.847 people lived in a 10 -mile radius around the nuclear power plant, 12.7 percent more than a decade earlier. Within a 50-mile radius lived in the same year 1,269,589 people and thus 2.1 percent more than in 2000., In a 50 -mile radius around the power plant are cities like Rochester (17 miles to city center). The Canadian population is not included in these figures.

Earthquake Risk

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates that the annual risk of a major earthquake that could cause damage to the reactor core results in a according to a study from August 2010 to 1 in 76 923.

Data of the reactor units

The nuclear power plant Ginna has a block:

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