Oconee Nuclear Station

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The nuclear power plant Oconee (English Oconee Nuclear Station, abbreviation ONS) is located at 7812 Rochester Hwy. Seneca, South Carolina ( USA) and has a net total capacity of 2538 MWe.

Technology

The nuclear power plant has three blocks with pressurized water reactors at Babcock & Wilcox, each with a capacity of 885 MW. Units 1 and 2 were put into operation in 1973 and Unit 3 in 1974. The plan is to take the refurbished blocks in 2034 from the mains.

The pressurized water reactor is an 8 "steel container weighing 660 tonnes, which is by a 3.9 ft thick reinforced concrete building protected. According Spiegel.de the Notkühlsytheme in the 1983 -built reactors were never functional.

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