Kewaunee Power Station

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The nuclear power plant Kewaunee (English Kewaunee Nuclear Generating Station, abbreviation KNPP ) is no longer operating nuclear power plant in Carlton, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan, about 35 miles southeast of Green Bay, 18 miles from Two Rivers and nine miles south of Kewaunee. The power plant is located on a 900 acre power plant site. It is located about five kilometers north of the Point Beach nuclear power plant. Therefore, the management of the system with the blocks was consolidated in Point Beach.

The reactor

The Kewaunee nuclear power plant consists of a pressurized water reactor with a net electrical output of 556 MWe and a gross output of 581 MWe. With the power from the nuclear power plant to the May 7, 2013 140,000 U.S. homes were supplied. The nuclear steam generator system comes from Westinghouse.

History

Construction of the Kewaunee nuclear power plant was on August 6, 1968. On April 8, 1974, the reactor was first synchronized with the power grid and is located on 16 June 1974 at the commercial operation. The nuclear power plant Kewaunee was the fourth nuclear power plant, which was built in Wisconsin and the 44th in the United States. The facility received in the years 1989 and 1995 perfect scores in the evaluation process, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The plant ran up to the year 2000 511 days without shutdown since the last refueling; in 1999 it ran every 365 days without interruption. 2004, the capacity factor of the system was 81.8 %. On 21 February 2005, the reactor was shut down due to a design fault in the auxiliary feedwater system. In July, the plant was started up again after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission confirmed that the error was properly corrected. In July 2005, the nuclear power plant of Dominion Resources was acquired by the former owners Wisconsin Public Service Corporation and Alliant Energy. The Virginia-based company also owns the North Anna nuclear power plants, Surry and Millstone. In North Anna and Surry licenses were renewed in 2003, in Millstone, 2005 On 21 December 2013, the license for the nuclear power plant Kewaunee expires.; the reactor would be shut down. The licensee did not submit an application for renewal of the license until December 21, 2033 on 14 August 2008 at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. On October 22, 2012, the operator announced to shut down the plant in the second quarter of 2013 for economic reasons and to demolish. Since April 2011, the owner Dominion Resources tried unsuccessfully to find a buyer for the nuclear power plant.

Closure

On May 7, 2013, the power plant was shut down and permanently disconnected from the mains. After Dominion could not successfully acquire other power plants in the region, the power plant for the energy group was uneconomical. A sale to other companies failed, even though the operating license for the power plant by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended by 20 years. The power plant will be completely dismantled, according to a statement of the operator are sufficient for funding.

Data of the reactor units

The Kewaunee nuclear power plant has a block:

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