Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station

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Active reactors ( gross ):

The Palo Verde nuclear power plant, a nuclear power plant at Palo Verde in winter castle, about 100 km west of Phoenix, is currently the most powerful nuclear power plant in the USA. It produces about 30,000 gigawatt-hours of electrical energy annually, supplying some 1.5 to two million households in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas with electricity. There are three reactor units, built by Combustion Engineering. The first two have a gross capacity of 1414 MWe, the third block 1346 MWe. Majority owner and operator of the facility is the Arizona Public Service. Other shareholders include Salt River Project, El Paso Electric Co., PNM Resources, Southern California Edison, Public Service Co. of New Mexico, Southern California Public Power Authority, and the Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power.

History

With the construction of the first reactor block was started on May 25, 1976. For the other two blocks construction began on 1 June 1976. The first reactor was on 25 May 1985 for the first time critical. The second reactor block was followed on April 18, 1986, the third on October 25, 1987. On 28 January 1986, the first and on September 19, 1986, the second reactor unit went into commercial operation. The third block was on January 8, 1988 in commercial operation. 2003 and 2005 respectively to increase power by 2.9% for each of the blocks has been approved. The operating license was renewed in April 2011 from the original 40 to 60 years.

Incidents

It came on 3 November 2007 at an incident. On the light truck of an employee, a pipe bomb was found when he tried to drive on the system. The 61- year-old engineer was arrested and claimed to have known nothing of the explosives. There was, according to the police, no danger to the nuclear power plant and the population, as the bomb the power plant would not be able to damage them. However, the self- assembled explosive device was functional. In the afternoon, the barrier was lifted to the system again.

Data of the reactor units

The Palo Verde nuclear power plant has three blocks:

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