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Unit 1 of Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station c. 1969. Both units are General Electric boiling water reactors (BWR). Unit 1, a BWR-2 (Generation 2), went online in 1969 and has a rated capacity of 644 megawatts (864,000 hp). It is the oldest operating commercial nuclear reactor still in service in the United States. [2]
In a statement, a spokesperson for Constellation writes: “Nine Mile Point Unit 2 and FitzPatrick Unit 1 tripped offline automatically this morning due […] SCRIBA, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — The state ...
FitzPatrick and half of the Nine Mile Point site were transferred to the Power Authority of the State of New York (PASNY), now called the New York Power Authority (NYPA). It was named after Power Authority Chairman James A. FitzPatrick, and the NYPA operated the plant until November 2000 when it was sold to Entergy Corporation. [2]
In October 2015, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted an operating license for Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station Unit 2, it started commercial operation in October 2016. The unit will lower Tennessee Valley Authority's CO 2 emissions by between six and eight million tons annually. [67] Unit 2 has an expected service lifetime of 60 years.
In February 1993, a man drove his car past a check point at the Three Mile Island Nuclear plant, then broke through an entry gate. He eventually crashed the car through a secure door and entered the Unit 1 reactor turbine building. The intruder, who had a history of mental illness, hid in a building and was not apprehended for four hours.
The Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station was erected by Niagara Mohawk. The first unit was completed in 1969, and was followed by a second unit in 1988. [4] The plant was sold to Constellation Energy in 2001; Constellation's successor, Exelon, along with Électricité de France, co-own the plant today.
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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.