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R. E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant

Coordinates: 43°16′40″N 77°18′36″W / 43.27778°N 77.31000°W / 43.27778; -77.31000
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Ginna nuclear power plant
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CountryUnited States
LocationOntario, New York
Coordinates43°16′40″N 77°18′36″W / 43.27778°N 77.31000°W / 43.27778; -77.31000
StatusOperational
Construction beganApril 25, 1966
Commission dateJune 1, 1970
Construction cost$346.15 million (2007 USD)[1]
Owner(s)Constellation Energy
Operator(s)Constellation Energy
Nuclear power station
Reactor typePWR
Reactor supplierWestinghouse
Cooling sourceLake Ontario
Power generation
Units operational1 × 580 MW
Nameplate capacity580 MW
Annual net output4732 GWh (2021)
External links
WebsiteGinna Nuclear Power Plant
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The Robert Emmett Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, commonly known as Ginna (/ɡɪˈneɪ/ ghih-NAY), is a nuclear power plant located on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, in the town of Ontario, Wayne County, New York, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) east of Rochester, New York.[2] It is a single unit Westinghouse 2-Loop pressurized water reactor, similar to those at Point Beach, Kewaunee, and Prairie Island. Having gone into commercial operation in 1970, Ginna became the second oldest nuclear power reactor, after Nine Mile unit 1, still in operation in the United States when the Oyster Creek power plant was permanently shut down on September 17, 2018.[2]

History

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The plant was named after Robert Emmett Ginna, a former chief executive of Rochester Gas & Electric, who was one of the nation's earliest advocates of using nuclear energy to generate electricity.[3]

Ginna is owned and operated by Constellation Energy following separation from Exelon in 2022. Constellation, prior to merger with Exelon purchased it from Rochester Gas and Electric in 2004.[4][5]

The Ginna plant was the site of a nuclear accident when, on January 25, 1982, a small amount of radioactive steam leaked into the air after a steam-generator tube ruptured.[6][7] The leak which lasted 93 minutes led to the declaration of a site emergency. The rupture was caused by a small pie-pan-shaped object left in the steam generator during an outage. This was not the first time a tube rupture had occurred at an American reactor but following on so closely behind the Three Mile Island accident caused considerable attention to be focused on the incident at the Ginna plant. In total, 485.3 curies of noble gas and 1.15 millicuries of iodine-131 were released to the environment [1] and 1,690 US gallons (6,400 L; 1,410 imp gal) of contaminated water was lost from the reactor.[8]

In 1996 the original Westinghouse supplied steam generators (including the one that was damaged in 1982 and repaired) were replaced by two brand new Babcock & Wilcox steam generators. This project enabled an uprating of Ginna's output several years later and was a major factor in the approval of the plant's operating license extension for 20 years beyond the original license (originally valid until 2009).

Electricity Production

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Generation (MWh) of R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant[9]
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual (Total)
2001 363,157 333,798 352,214 357,305 369,403 351,793 359,110 357,953 348,927 366,030 356,796 369,242 4,285,728
2002 369,437 309,639 167,286 110,696 368,745 354,854 358,597 357,515 336,869 366,674 357,224 369,312 3,826,848
2003 369,157 333,040 358,284 357,078 370,018 355,741 361,548 317,417 149,717 165,598 357,350 369,071 3,864,019
2004 368,981 345,506 369,581 357,110 368,969 359,679 363,554 360,422 351,488 338,115 358,159 370,379 4,311,943
2005 371,538 308,251 231,144 221,167 370,006 352,150 344,889 356,950 339,371 371,222 360,373 371,152 3,998,213
2006 370,750 335,216 371,075 359,071 371,293 354,770 359,643 358,382 354,162 85,503 366,516 433,293 4,119,674
2007 391,257 387,834 401,525 418,284 423,302 409,952 409,867 419,625 408,689 411,515 417,479 431,199 4,930,528
2008 431,274 403,434 430,630 274,251 261,037 413,782 419,771 418,979 410,902 428,998 417,387 432,381 4,742,826
2009 432,130 390,108 431,376 413,772 336,937 415,529 422,912 417,308 174,390 375,579 413,995 406,867 4,630,903
2010 340,553 388,412 431,703 418,154 430,836 411,637 417,520 421,282 409,225 429,647 417,397 431,997 4,948,363
2011 429,794 389,941 431,777 317,753 0 275,078 417,081 418,559 411,333 368,958 385,844 432,414 4,278,532
2012 432,520 404,390 431,961 418,365 430,825 411,946 418,054 414,834 406,077 285,706 116,230 430,811 4,601,719
2013 432,767 390,729 432,514 419,309 432,300 414,881 363,935 418,663 407,739 428,096 419,261 433,102 4,993,296
2014 424,520 390,493 432,045 371,081 105,955 417,293 423,190 407,687 411,411 427,554 418,641 432,625 4,662,495
2015 432,353 390,466 431,859 418,743 431,027 416,419 423,337 426,923 418,624 245,231 328,898 437,511 4,801,391
2016 438,041 409,814 437,839 417,497 430,574 412,175 426,117 417,886 404,918 427,365 417,058 431,039 5,070,323
2017 431,281 389,833 430,885 298,362 210,016 412,085 420,460 419,606 408,610 427,257 417,573 431,707 4,697,675
2018 431,746 389,920 388,055 418,273 431,906 415,493 412,470 417,553 408,858 257,347 290,620 427,199 4,689,440
2019 431,412 390,119 430,988 417,825 431,766 361,140 418,815 420,587 411,409 429,922 417,947 431,763 4,993,693
2020 432,047 404,201 429,197 62,644 72,039 413,348 416,834 415,553 408,485 428,428 418,270 431,842 4,332,888
2021 432,048 390,196 431,443 418,048 430,618 413,188 451,712 417,592 406,823 91,809 418,304 430,946 4,732,727
2022 432,313 390,539 431,723 418,326 431,515 412,419 418,928 415,491 409,057 428,903 4,189,214
2023

Surrounding population

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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.[10]

The 2010 U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of Ginna was 66,847, an increase of 12.7 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 1,269,589, an increase of 2.1 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include Rochester (17 miles to city center). Canadian population is not included in these figures.[11]

Seismic risk

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at Ginna was 1 in 76,923, according to an NRC study published in August 2010.[12][13]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "EIA - State Nuclear Profiles". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Constellation Energy Ginna Site Description". Constellation Energy. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved July 9, 2007.
  3. ^ Salpukas, Agis (1996-05-19). "Robert Ginna, 94, a Champion of Nuclear Power". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  4. ^ "Constellation Energy Press Release, June 10, 2004" Archived October 24, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. www.constellation.com. Retrieved 2007-07-09.
  5. ^ "CENG'S Five Reactors Officially Join Exelon's Nuclear Fleet - Exelon".
  6. ^ "TRANSMITTAL OF NUREG-0916 RELATIVE TO THE RESTART OF R. E. GINNA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (Generic Letter No. 82-11)". UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION. June 9, 1982. Retrieved 2009-01-09.
  7. ^ "Nuclear Plant Mishap Is Explained by Utility". The New York Times. March 25, 1982. Retrieved January 9, 2009.
  8. ^ Schlager (1994). When Technology Fails. Gale Research. ISBN 0-8103-8908-8.
  9. ^ "Electricity Data Browser". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  10. ^ "NRC: Backgrounder on Emergency Preparedness for Nuclear Power Plants". Archived from the original on 2006-10-02. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
  11. ^ "Nuclear neighbors: Population rises near US reactors". NBC News. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  12. ^ "What are the odds? US nuke plants ranked by quake risk". NBC News. 16 March 2011. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  13. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-25. Retrieved 2011-04-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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