North Anna Nuclear Generating Station

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The North Anna nuclear power plant is located in Mineral in Louisa County, Virginia in the United States. It consists of two power plant units with pressurized water reactors. These are located on a 4.4 km2 area in Louisa County, Virginia. The operator of the nuclear power plant is the Dominion Generation. It is jointly owned by Dominion Virginia Power Corporation ( 88.4 %) and the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (11.6%). Dominion currently owns nuclear power plants in Virginia ( North Anna, Surry ), Connecticut ( Millstone ) and Wisconsin ( Kewaunee ).

The reactors

The facility has two pressurized water reactors of the Westinghouse Company. Together, the reactors have a capacity of 1931 MW, with the generated electricity regions Greater Richmond and Northern Virginia are mainly supplied.

Construction work on both blocks was on 19 February 1971. The first network synchronization of the first reactor block was on 17 April 1978, which the second block on 25 August 1980. The first unit started on June 6, 1978 commercial operation on the second reactor on 14 December 1980.

An artificial lake, Lake Anna was created in the North Anna River, to have a water reservoir for cooling water intake for the reactors. Final studies have shown that the lake has plenty of aquatic life and there is no damage caused by the operation of the plant.

North Anna is similar in design and appearance to the Surry nuclear power plant.

There are two additional new reactors at the site North Anna in conversation.

Performance

The net output of the first reactor is 924 MWe gross power 973 MWe. The second block has a net output of 910 MWe and a gross capacity of 958 MWe.

Incidents

In August 2011, joined along the northeast coast of the USA on an unusual earthquake. The epicenter of the magnitude 5.8 Richter was in Virginia, the same state as the nuclear power plant. The quake led to the failure of the external power supply connectors, which both blocks are cooled with the help of emergency diesel generators had (emergency case). Already after 40 minutes of run time one of the diesel engines failed because of damage to the radiator, so the necessary power to operate the pumps had to be from another diesel engine, called the emergency diesel delivered. The day after the earthquake, the power supply to the residual heat removal, could be restored, the blocks but remained even longer off.

Data of the reactor units

The North Anna nuclear power plant has a total of two blocks:

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