Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant

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The Shearon Harris nuclear power plant (English Shearon Harris Nuclear Generating Station ) is a U.S. nuclear power plant about 30 kilometers southwest of the capital of Raleigh in New Hill in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is in operation since 1987 and consists of a block with a pressurized water reactor, which has a gross capacity of 960 megawatts.

History

Block 1

The configuration of the nuclear power plant began in 1971. The reactor of block 1 was built by Westinghouse, who had 28. Construction of January 1978. The reactor reached its first criticality on January 3, 1987, two weeks later, on 19 January 1987 he went on-line and on May 2 began in 1987 and commercial operations. The cost of construction amounted to 3.9 billion U.S. dollars.

The Shearon Harris nuclear power plant was thus the third and last nuclear power plant in North Carolina. With the Brunswick nuclear power plant, the first nuclear power plant in 1977 was put into operation in the U.S. state in 1981 was followed by the nuclear power plant McGuire.

On 16 November 2006, the operator Progress Energy asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the United States, the extension of the operating license by 20 years from 40 to 60 years. This request was granted on 2 October 2008, the operating license for Unit 1 nuclear power plant thus ends on 24 October 2046th

On 20 January 2010, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported that an electric generator will be reused from the damaged Unit 2 of the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Iceland in the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant. The generator was overhauled and extensively tested to ensure that no parts are contaminated. By using the old generator, the operator can avoid buying a new device.

More blocks

Originally three other reactors of the same type were planned in the 1970s at the site, their construction was not realized for reasons of cost. February 19, 2008 Progress Energy applied due to the increased demand for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build two new pressurized water reactors of the type AP 1000 with a capacity of 1,100 MW. The assessment of the application will take about 36 months, the first new block could go in a positive evaluation in 2018 therefore the mains.

Plant

Operators and main owner of the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant is Progress Energy (formerly Carolina Power & Light ), an energy company from North Carolina, the three other nuclear power plants operating in the southeastern United States. Progress Energy holds 83.8 % stake in the nuclear power plant, while the remaining 16.2 % are held by the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency.

The reactor plant covers an area of about 43 km2 and is located in the southwest of Wake County. The nuclear power plant has a 160 -meter high cooling tower and also uses cooling water from nearby Lake Harris.

The pressurized water reactor was initially operated with a net electrical output of 860 megawatts ( MW). In 2002 was an increase in power to 900 MW. It is used for base-load power supply and running during power operation is always at full power. The nuclear fuel is exchanged approximately every 18 months. The burned fuel rods are stored in a spent fuel pool on site.

The nuclear power plant supplies about half a million households in the southeastern United States with electricity. Since the commissioning of over 130,000 GWh were fed into the power grid. A visitor center is located in New Hill, about 3 km from the reactor plant.

Data of the reactor block

The Shearon Harris nuclear power plant has a power block:

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