St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant
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Country | United States |
Location | Port St. Lucie, St. Lucie County, Florida |
Coordinates | 27°20′55″N 80°14′47″W / 27.34861°N 80.24639°W |
Status | Operational |
Construction began | Unit 1: July 1, 1970 Unit 2: June 2, 1977 |
Commission date | Unit 1: December 21, 1976 Unit 2: August 8, 1983 |
Construction cost | $4.614 billion (2007 USD)[1] |
Owner(s) | Florida Power & Light |
Operator(s) | Florida Power & Light |
Nuclear power station | |
Reactor type | PWR |
Reactor supplier | Combustion Engineering |
Cooling source | Atlantic Ocean |
Thermal capacity | 2 × 3020 MWth |
Power generation | |
Units operational | 2 × 940 MW [2] |
Make and model | CE 2-loop (DRYAMB) |
Nameplate capacity | 1,880 MW [2] |
Capacity factor | 95.29% (2017) 84.05% (lifetime) |
Annual net output | 14,153 GWh (2021) |
External links | |
Website | St. Lucie Nuclear Plant |
Commons | Related media on Commons |
St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant is a twin nuclear power station located on Hutchinson Island, near Port St. Lucie in St. Lucie County, Florida. Both units are Combustion Engineering pressurized water reactors. Florida Power & Light commissioned the station in 1976 and continues to operate the station. Minor shares of Unit 2 are owned by the Florida Municipal Power Agency (8.81%) and the Orlando Utilities Commission (6.08%).[citation needed]
The plant contains two nuclear reactors in separate containment buildings. However, the plant does not have the classic hyperboloid cooling towers found at many inland reactor sites; instead, it uses nearby ocean water for coolant of the secondary system.
In 2003 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) extended the operating licenses of the St. Lucie units by twenty years, to March 1, 2036 for Unit 1 and April 6, 2043 for Unit 2.
Extended Power Uprate
[edit]In 2012, Extended Power Uprate modifications were completed, increasing the electric output from approximately 853 MW to 1,002 MW. The project involved replacing pipes, valves, pumps, heat exchangers, electrical transformers, and generators, some of which were original components of the plant.[3][4]
Electricity Production
[edit]Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Annual (Total) |
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2001 | 1,279,964 | 1,152,193 | 1,191,863 | 707,773 | 1,166,289 | 1,208,322 | 1,224,673 | 1,261,433 | 1,257,951 | 1,225,825 | 1,109,734 | 651,066 | 13,437,086 |
2002 | 1,257,614 | 1,132,666 | 1,277,364 | 1,270,433 | 1,226,570 | 1,260,307 | 1,226,180 | 1,258,768 | 1,170,595 | 748,035 | 1,224,764 | 1,277,141 | 14,330,437 |
2003 | 1,275,678 | 1,150,578 | 1,267,927 | 897,407 | 634,992 | 845,616 | 1,269,451 | 1,270,333 | 1,213,963 | 1,260,749 | 1,226,294 | 1,079,016 | 13,392,004 |
2004 | 1,271,564 | 1,179,471 | 1,047,578 | 688,290 | 1,266,052 | 1,218,199 | 1,261,575 | 1,256,661 | 459,372 | 1,114,226 | 1,219,307 | 1,123,434 | 13,105,729 |
2005 | 657,658 | 811,664 | 1,263,896 | 1,219,975 | 1,255,421 | 1,214,753 | 1,251,099 | 1,211,355 | 1,200,381 | 839,092 | 601,381 | 842,635 | 12,369,310 |
2006 | 1,143,473 | 1,140,647 | 1,262,519 | 1,038,256 | 636,101 | 886,443 | 1,253,609 | 1,254,528 | 1,205,302 | 1,246,023 | 1,202,625 | 1,239,695 | 13,509,221 |
2007 | 1,261,653 | 1,143,553 | 1,259,140 | 609,350 | 676,573 | 1,210,873 | 1,248,036 | 943,668 | 1,168,004 | 626,719 | 616,172 | 625,754 | 11,389,495 |
2008 | 1,111,351 | 1,026,980 | 1,254,363 | 1,230,022 | 1,272,167 | 1,140,516 | 1,274,735 | 1,139,404 | 1,220,223 | 1,008,012 | 800,697 | 1,281,862 | 13,760,332 |
2009 | 1,284,034 | 1,162,264 | 1,256,792 | 1,074,529 | 638,925 | 923,915 | 918,838 | 1,255,686 | 790,957 | 1,245,577 | 1,222,384 | 1,280,857 | 13,054,758 |
2010 | 1,268,012 | 1,163,128 | 1,232,898 | 506,871 | 633,376 | 648,540 | 1,115,468 | 1,107,521 | 1,162,957 | 1,268,851 | 1,237,392 | 1,285,379 | 12,630,393 |
2011 | 665,606 | 577,883 | 637,182 | 593,443 | 996,384 | 1,210,703 | 1,285,712 | 1,131,161 | 1,241,306 | 1,063,997 | 1,040,228 | 664,151 | 11,107,756 |
2012 | 662,475 | 893,828 | 645,408 | 654,923 | 891,513 | 1,150,263 | 1,029,895 | 791,423 | 661,022 | 708,426 | 790,334 | 1,379,949 | 10,259,459 |
2013 | 1,504,421 | 1,358,823 | 1,030,537 | 1,428,195 | 1,469,986 | 1,327,843 | 1,497,946 | 1,487,721 | 1,393,654 | 746,636 | 1,075,620 | 1,298,529 | 15,619,911 |
2014 | 1,503,609 | 1,360,573 | 787,237 | 858,892 | 1,494,246 | 1,417,842 | 1,336,427 | 1,353,070 | 1,419,951 | 1,479,589 | 1,303,884 | 1,502,254 | 15,817,574 |
2015 | 1,506,481 | 1,237,641 | 1,252,070 | 593,003 | 1,485,412 | 1,440,480 | 1,499,099 | 1,420,471 | 867,682 | 847,970 | 1,431,959 | 1,492,996 | 15,075,264 |
2016 | 1,493,947 | 1,409,324 | 1,497,913 | 1,449,012 | 1,490,928 | 1,432,343 | 1,481,288 | 789,413 | 1,298,258 | 543,538 | 1,198,890 | 1,501,708 | 15,586,562 |
2017 | 1,482,601 | 957,494 | 882,240 | 1,448,133 | 1,494,814 | 1,449,325 | 1,494,275 | 1,484,117 | 1,382,972 | 1,399,853 | 1,449,723 | 1,502,373 | 16,427,920 |
2018 | 1,511,420 | 1,356,200 | 1,010,416 | 1,163,105 | 1,494,768 | 1,443,949 | 1,472,587 | 1,256,690 | 705,987 | 1,200,465 | 1,445,422 | 1,501,572 | 15,562,581 |
2019 | 1,507,966 | 1,366,005 | 1,506,782 | 1,314,475 | 745,160 | 940,204 | 1,491,455 | 1,482,733 | 1,071,040 | 1,045,921 | 990,694 | 1,503,193 | 14,965,628 |
2020 | 1,505,458 | 1,076,922 | 1,032,815 | 1,453,359 | 1,495,624 | 1,442,615 | 1,471,461 | 1,476,561 | 1,418,384 | 1,480,741 | 1,439,715 | 1,506,715 | 16,800,370 |
2021 | 1,411,571 | 1,360,091 | 1,501,864 | 935,022 | 1,061,074 | 1,439,066 | 1,481,220 | 1,373,682 | 708,539 | -- | 1,441,954 | 1,439,600 | 14,153,683 |
2022 | 1,131,926 | 1,352,129 | 1,488,798 | 1,440,765 | 1,489,330 | 1,410,683 | 1,475,801 | 1,478,304 | 750,791 | 1,375,940 | 13,394,467 | ||
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Surrounding population
[edit]The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway zone with a radius of 10 miles (16 km), concerned primarily with exposure to, and inhalation of, airborne radioactive contamination, and an ingestion pathway zone of about 50 miles (80 km), concerned primarily with ingestion of food and liquid contaminated by radioactivity.[6]
The 2010 U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of Saint Lucie was 206,596, an increase of 49.7 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data for msnbc.com. The 2010 U.S. population within 50 miles (80 km) was 1,271,947, an increase of 37.0 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include Port St. Lucie (7.8 miles to city center), Ft. Pierce (8 miles to city center), Stuart and West Palm Beach (42 miles to city center).
Seismic risk
[edit]The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at Saint Lucie was 1 in 21,739, according to an NRC study published in August 2010.[7][8]
Hurricane risk
[edit]In 2016 St. Lucie Power Plant shut down because of Hurricane Matthew.[9] In 2017 the plant did not shut down due to Hurricane Irma.[10]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "EIA - State Nuclear Profiles". Eia.gov. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
- ^ a b "St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant | Florida Department of Environmental Protection". floridadep.gov. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
- ^ "HomeTown News Gift Certificates". Myhometownnews.net. Archived from the original on February 22, 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ^ [1] [dead link]
- ^ "Electricity Data Browser". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
- ^ "NRC: Backgrounder on Emergency Preparedness for Nuclear Power Plants". Archived from the original on 2006-10-02. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
- ^ Bill Dedman (March 17, 2011), "What are the odds? US nuke plants ranked by quake risk", Msnbc.com, retrieved April 19, 2011
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-25. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "St. Lucie Power Plant shut down because of Hurricane Matthew". Tcpalm.com. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ^ "FPL nuclear facilities weathered Irma without sustaining damage". Tcpalm.com. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
External links
[edit]- FPL's About St. Lucie
- "St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant, Florida". U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). September 15, 2008. Archived from the original on December 11, 2012. Retrieved 2008-11-17.
- "Saint Lucie 1 Pressurized Water Reactor". Operating Nuclear Power Reactors. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). February 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-17.
- "Saint Lucie 2 Pressurized Water Reactor". Operating Nuclear Power Reactors. NRC. February 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-17.