Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant

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Decommissioned Reactors ( gross ):

The nuclear power plant Shoreham, (English Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, abbreviation SNP, also nuclear power plant Wading River called ) lies at the Wading River in East Shoreham, New York, on the north shore of Long Iceland in the United States, 60 kilometers east of Manhattan. The power plant was never actually put into operation. It belongs to the Long Iceland Power Authority ( LIPA ).

Reactor

In 1968 it was decided to build the power plant with a capacity of 820 megawatts instead of the originally planned 540 MW. The reactor nuclear power plant in Shoreham, it was a boiling water reactor from General Electric. The Shoreham nuclear power plant is the virtual twin of the first block in the Millstone nuclear power plant, which was ordered in the 1960s.

The reactor had a net output of 820 MWe and a gross capacity of 849 MWe.

History

The power plant cost six billion U.S. dollars. Taxpayers must pay four billion dollars, which means that they pay about 16 cents per dollar of taxes for the power plant. Thus, the power plant was 85 times more expensive than originally estimated. Originally a price of 65 to 75 million U.S. dollars was planned.

On April 20, 1965 LILCO decided to build a nuclear power station in Suffolk County. For this, a 455 -acre site between the villages of Shoreham and Wading River was purchased. The power plant should be completed by 1973. However, the construction was approved after 32 months of consultation by the United States Atomic Energy Commission until April 12, 1973.

Construction began on November 1, 1972.

End of the 1970s, the price estimate was increased to two billion dollars. Through the reactor accident at Three Mile Iceland in 1979, the number of opponents of nuclear power rose considerably. On a rainy Sunday, June 3, 1979, it came in Shoreham for a demonstration of 15,000 protesters. 571 of them were arrested by the police. On February 17, 1983, a vote of 15:1, that the county in the event of an accident could not be safely evacuated.

On August 12, 1983, there was a problem at the crankshaft in one of three emergency diesel generators.

On August 1, 1986, the reactor was first synchronized with the power grid, but never went into commercial operation and therefore produced no electricity.

On 20 April 1989, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC ) approved the full-load operation of the power plant. However, the power plant on May 1, 1989 shut down.

On 19 July 1991, the NRC approved the reduction of the power plant. 1992 LILCO sold the power plant for a dollar to the state of New York, who declared himself willing to dismantle the power plant.

On October 12, 1994, the plant was finally shut down because of local opposition.

The spent fuel elements were discharged from the reactor core and temporarily placed in the fuel storage. Only 602 Curie the reactor pressure vessel and internals and about thirty millicuries surface contamination in the remaining reactor systems and structures were measured. Parts of the remaining contaminated systems contain small amounts of radioactivity, and the components were removed, packaged, transported and removed. The program of decommissioning activities estimated to cost $ 186 million. Due to the short duration of the nuclear power plant outside the three large structures is not contaminated.

Others

The identical Millstone 1 nuclear power plant was completed at a cost of 101 million dollars put into operation and ran for two decades.

The rotors of the low pressure turbine in Shoreham are currently used in the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant.

The fuel elements were used in the Limerick nuclear power plant continue. They cost the operator of Limerick almost $ 50 million.

Data of the reactor units

The Shoreham nuclear power plant has a total of one block:

Swell

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