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Update:
April 11, 2007
Kewaunee Power Station Net Generation and Capacity, 2005
Description: The Kewaunee nuclear plant occupies a 900-acre site in Carlton, Wisconsin, about 35 miles southeast of Green Bay. Management of the site was consolidated with the Point Beach units. Kewaunee was the fourth nuclear plant built in Wisconsin, and the 44th built in the United States. In June 2005, the plant was acquired by Dominion from its previous owners, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation and Alliant Energy. The Virginia-based company owns the North Anna and Surry plants in its home state, and acquired one other out-of-state plant, Millstone (in Connecticut). In 2004, the Kewaunee plant's capacity factor (the ratio of the amount of electricity actually produced to the maximum potential output) was 81.8 percent. In 2005, it declined as a result of the unit being taken off-line to correct a discovered design weakness in the plant's auxiliary feed-water system. The reactor was taken off-line on February 21, 2005, and returned to service in July after NRC concluded the problem has been corrected. Kewaunee, Unit 1 Containment: According to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, containment type for Kewaunee’s reactor is dry, ambient pressure[1].
Pressurized Light Water Reactor
Sources
for Data in the Table: Capacity, for purposes of this report, is the
net summer capability as reported in Energy Information Administration
(EIA) survey form 860, "Annual Electric Generator Report." Capacity
Factor is a calculation in which the maximum possible generation (based
on net summer capability) is divided into the actual generation than multiplied
by 100 to get a percentage. Generation is the electricity output reported
by plant owners on EIA survey form 906. Type of Unit: All U.S. commercial
reactors currently in operation are one of two types: BWR (boiling water
reactor) or PWR (pressurized light water reactor). The type is identified
in EIA's Nuclear Power Generation and Fuel Cycle Report. Both the On-line
Date and the License Expiration Date are reported annually in Information
Digest by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. _________________________________________
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