Monday, May 23, 2011

Perry Nuclear Plant

"The Perry Nuclear Power Plant is an infringement on the health and well-being of all the people living within a five-hundred-mile radius of its reactor core" - quote from Talk Radio 

The Perry Nuclear Power Plant is located on a 1,100-acre (450 ha) site onLake Erie, 40 miles (65 km) northeast of Cleveland in North Perry, Ohio, USA. The nuclear power plant is owned by First Energy Nuclear Operating Corporation. 
The reactor is a General Electric BWR-6 boiling water reactor design, with a Mark III containment design. The original core power level of 3,579 megawatts thermal was increased to 3,758 megawatts thermal in 2000, making Perry one of the largest BWRs in the United States. 
Built at a cost of $6 billion, Perry-1 is one of the most expensive power plants ever constructed. 
Perry was originally designed as a two-unit installation, but construction on Unit 2 was suspended in 1985 and formally cancelled in 1994. At the time of cancellation, all of the major buildings and structures for the second unit were completed, including the 500-foot tall cooling tower. Aerial pictures of Perry show what appears to be two nuclear units. The completed sections have since been raided for spare parts to maintain Unit 1. It is theoretically possible that a second unit could be constructed on the site, but current economical and regulatory conditions are not conducive to doing so (in addition to back taxes that would be due to the "abandon in place" designations on many objects in Unit 2). At any rate, the second unit would have to be re-built from the ground up to accommodate the newer reactor design that would almost certainly be installed. 
Perry was the 100th power reactor licensed in the United States. Start of commercial operation November 18, 1987. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Nuclear_Generating_Station 

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