Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station

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The Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant (English Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station ) is a nuclear power plant with two pressurized water reactors. The nuclear power plant is located in Homestead in Florida, 40 km south of Miami.

The Turkey Point power plant consists of two conventional oil or natural gas -fired power plant units 1 and 2 with a capacity of 400 MW and two Westinghouse pressurized water reactors ( Units 3 and 4). In 2007 the plant to a 5 block with 1150 MW has been extended as a gas - and -steam combined cycle power plant.

History

On April 27, 1967 started the construction of the two reactors. Block 3 was first critically on 20 October 1972 the 4th block on June 11, 1973. The first network synchronization found for block 3 on November 2, 1972, for Unit 4 instead of June 21, 1973. Commercial operation took on the reactors on 14 December 1972 and September 7, 1973.

In 2002, the operating licenses of both reactors was increased from 40 to 60 years.

Extension

The system should be extended by two Westinghouse reactors of the type AP- 1000 with a capacity of 1117 MW. It was reported in January 2010 that the planning of the Turkey Point reactors 6 and 7 was set.

Incidents

Due to a malfunction in a substation of the U.S. electric utility Florida Power & Light broke on 26 February 2008 in the State of Florida, the power supply in the Greater Miami together. The two nuclear reactors were shut down as scheduled automatically and safely due to the voltage loss. As a result of the incident were eight other power plants with a capacity of 3400 MW in Florida, so that over three million people were without electricity.

Data of the reactor units

The Turkey Point nuclear power plant has two reactor units:

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