Wolf Creek Generating Station

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The nuclear power plant Wolf Creek is a nuclear power plant, 3.5 miles northeast of Burlington and north of New Strawn in Coffey County, Kansas in the United States, about 55 miles south of the capital of Topeka, 90 miles southwest of Kansas City and 120 miles northeast of Wichita. It is the only nuclear power plant in Kansas.

The reactor

The reactor of the nuclear power plant Wolf Creek is a pressurized water reactor with an electrical net output of 1166 MWe and a gross capacity of 1213 MWe. The reactor comes from Westinghouse and has four loops and a dry containment. The reactor produces electricity to power 800,000 homes. With a megawatt 800 apartments in Kansas can be supplied with power. By September 2008, the power plant had produced 10369.136 million kilowatt hours of electricity. The capacity factor was 101.5 %. The architect was the Bechtel Corporation. With the stream from the reactor citizens in Kansas and Missouri are supplied.

History

Construction of the nuclear power plant was on 31 May 1977. On 12 June 1985 he was first synchronized with the power grid and went into commercial operation on September 3, 1985. The issued on 6 April 1985 Running license was due to expire on November 3, 2025. However, the operator applied on 27 September 2006 an extension of the license for 20 years. In November 2008, the license has been renewed, it remains in force until 11 March 2045th With this decision, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC ) has now renewed the licenses of 49 of the 104 commercial reactors in operation in the United States. The Wolf Creek Nuclear Corporation carries on its official website a few alleged milestones in the profitability of their nuclear power plant, including in areas of lowest production costs per megawatt hour and the longest operating times without shutdown.

Location and security

Due to the risk earthquake situation, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates that the annual risk for an incident that could affect the reactor core, according to a study to 1 in 55.556. In 2008 it came into the main central cooling line from Wolf Creek to stress corrosion cracking, which has led to a reassessment of the mastery of a loss of coolant accident in Swiss nuclear power plants.

Others

You can see the power plant for many miles from the Kansas Highway 75. The plant is located on Wolf Creek Reservoir. Near the power plant, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Learning Center, in which, among other things, a control room simulator is located. The nuclear power plant is owned by Great Plains Energy Inc 's Kansas City Power & Light (47 percent), Westar Energy Inc (47 percent) and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative Inc (6 percent). These owners together form the subsidiary Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation ( WCNOC ). The WCNOC is also responsible for the accounting department. The operator / licensee is also the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation. The nuclear power plant takes 9,818 acres of the 11,800 acres that are controlled by the owner, a. The plant was named after the lake, on which it is located (Wolf Creek Lake ). This lake also supplies the cooling water for the reactor.

Besides producing electricity, nuclear power plant Wolf Creek also has an economic importance for Coffey County and the State of Kansas. This is evident in a recent study on the economic benefits of nuclear power plant, which was conducted by the Nuclear Energy Institute ( NEI). The study revealed that the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant contributes $ 165 million annually for the local economy and the state in the form of wages and salaries, purchases and taxes.

Data of the reactor units

The Wolf Creek nuclear power plant has a total of one block:

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