Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant

Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant
E. I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant near Baxley, Georgia.
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CountryUnited States
LocationBaxley, Appling County, Georgia
Coordinates31°56′3″N 82°20′38″W / 31.93417°N 82.34389°W / 31.93417; -82.34389
StatusOperational
Construction beganUnit 1: September 30, 1968
Unit 2: February 1, 1972
Commission dateUnit 1: December 31, 1975
Unit 2: September 5, 1979
Construction cost$3.214 billion (2007 USD)[1]
OwnersGeorgia Power (50.1%)
OPCTooltip Oglethorpe Power Corporation (30%)
MEAG (17.7%)
Dalton Utilities (2.2%)
OperatorSouthern Nuclear
Nuclear power station
Reactor typeBWR
Reactor supplierGeneral Electric
Cooling towers6 × Mechanical Draft
Cooling sourceAltamaha River
Thermal capacity2 × 2804 MWth
Power generation
Units operational1 × 876 MW
1 × 883 MW
Make and modelBWR-4 (Mark 1)
Nameplate capacity1759 MW
Capacity factor94.30% (2017)
81.25% (lifetime)
Annual net output14,165 GWh (2021
External links
WebsitePlant Hatch
CommonsRelated media on Commons
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The Edwin Irby Hatch Nuclear Power Plant is near Baxley, Georgia, in the southeastern United States, on a 2,244-acre (9 km²) site. It has two General Electric boiling water reactors with a total capacity of 1,848 megawatts. Previously, the reactors had a combined capacity listing of 1,759 MW. Unit 1 went online in 1974 and was followed by Unit 2 in 1978. The plant was named for Edwin I. Hatch, president of Georgia Power from 1963 to 1975, and chairman from 1975 to 1978.

In 2002, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) extended the operating licenses for both reactors for an additional twenty years.

Ownership

The Hatch plant is operated by Southern Nuclear Operating Company, a subsidiary of Southern Company. Hatch's owners are:

Electricity Production

Generation (MWh) of Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Power Plant[2]
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual (Total)
2001 1,293,069 1,170,555 1,235,570 1,228,926 1,293,283 1,249,637 1,285,502 1,287,504 887,694 724,050 1,262,124 1,162,794 14,080,708
2002 1,096,002 1,051,386 1,079,149 768,129 1,299,788 1,242,675 1,281,149 1,285,960 1,220,620 1,170,627 1,253,611 1,301,301 14,050,397
2003 1,306,083 1,159,832 660,970 921,735 1,240,258 1,226,216 1,276,981 1,273,185 1,240,679 1,256,654 1,244,926 1,301,912 14,109,431
2004 1,286,044 843,608 922,869 1,240,053 1,306,693 1,255,164 1,291,825 1,292,993 1,134,261 1,245,552 1,269,371 1,328,315 14,416,748
2005 1,060,127 674,786 1,010,550 1,232,364 1,170,619 1,273,402 1,303,481 1,305,268 1,266,796 1,255,578 914,894 1,253,365 13,721,230
2006 1,186,457 807,651 663,326 1,121,424 1,230,480 1,275,776 1,288,575 1,276,152 1,270,059 1,318,271 1,289,022 1,331,464 14,058,657
2007 1,183,710 600,166 911,243 1,284,721 1,311,571 1,262,831 1,309,161 1,230,470 1,262,814 1,313,417 1,255,942 1,322,059 14,248,105
2008 1,322,042 671,388 719,886 1,269,332 1,107,784 1,252,916 1,205,583 1,306,804 1,225,470 1,308,816 1,202,362 1,321,159 13,913,542
2009 1,316,335 752,616 655,970 626,578 281,700 1,154,041 1,259,304 1,299,970 1,268,416 1,250,367 1,211,294 1,320,064 12,396,655
2010 1,316,315 713,061 830,948 926,068 1,313,326 1,236,347 1,238,567 1,283,776 1,257,836 1,294,065 1,289,367 1,201,880 13,901,556
2011 1,237,841 1,198,354 1,205,375 633,895 978,037 1,199,385 1,243,944 1,207,702 1,193,230 1,073,430 1,273,956 1,131,733 13,576,882
2012 1,274,287 830,447 838,916 1,259,959 1,153,449 1,257,481 1,291,743 1,282,836 1,266,753 1,312,943 1,284,261 1,330,362 14,383,437
2013 1,284,903 446,460 875,154 1,251,469 1,321,199 1,226,954 1,271,402 1,300,051 1,098,399 1,189,234 1,256,398 1,302,205 13,823,828
2014 1,273,424 626,551 1,176,121 1,281,033 1,309,660 1,218,842 1,306,695 1,303,805 1,253,006 1,320,466 1,289,516 1,150,873 14,509,992
2015 1,211,828 745,614 963,562 1,254,002 1,318,135 1,262,976 1,302,734 1,280,320 1,241,785 1,323,246 1,285,540 1,307,512 14,497,254
2016 1,271,051 742,270 1,216,578 1,199,095 1,186,709 1,225,574 1,308,365 1,309,027 1,245,472 1,323,921 1,276,742 1,315,629 14,620,433
2017 1,168,298 705,629 1,312,674 987,573 1,267,405 1,271,768 1,314,568 1,309,532 1,272,109 1,304,773 1,293,513 1,323,100 14,530,942
2018 1,289,208 607,958 1,240,495 1,194,391 1,065,959 1,267,108 1,310,789 1,312,149 1,258,010 1,271,257 1,287,877 1,298,349 14,403,550
2019 1,286,342 648,230 739,359 1,278,621 1,178,061 1,249,435 1,306,082 1,299,698 1,081,605 1,260,279 1,286,082 1,303,087 13,916,881
2020 1,241,759 622,847 903,310 1,043,023 1,320,639 1,101,674 1,305,935 1,302,460 1,257,246 1,299,025 1,254,394 1,315,567 13,967,879
2021 1,272,328 719,106 1,107,281 1,236,136 1,324,183 1,109,247 1,100,158 1,205,197 1,259,821 1,318,620 1,288,533 1,224,458 14,165,068
2022 1,229,473 686,846 1,234,441 1,288,711 1,231,071 1,270,709 1,309,478 1,310,105 1,261,036 1,159,713 1,276,435 1,300,367 14,980,384
2023 1,184,233 591,498 1,242,450 1,238,560 1,210,879 1,279,544 1,314,232 1,248,789 1,271,553 1,328,504 1,126,592 1,303,390 15,340,224
2024 1,235,996 677,657 872,382 1,285,982 1,317,725 1,269,084 1,222,416 1,309,202 1,128,474 1,248,911 --

Surrounding population

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.[3]

The 2010 U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of Hatch was 11,061, an increase of 6.7 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 424,741, an increase of 12.0 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include Vidalia (19 miles to city center).[4]

Onsite storage of spent nuclear fuel

Spent nuclear fuel is stored on-site in concrete casks. The Hatch Plant, a BWR, near Baxley GA is estimated by DOE, as of this year, to have generated 1,446 metric tons of spent fuel.

Seismic risk

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at Hatch was 1 in 454,545, according to an NRC study published in August 2010.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ "EIA - State Nuclear Profiles". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Electricity Data Browser". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  3. ^ "NRC: Backgrounder on Emergency Preparedness for Nuclear Power Plants". Archived from the original on 2006-10-02. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
  4. ^ "Nuclear neighbors: Population rises near US reactors". NBC News. 2011-04-14. Retrieved 2024-08-16.
  5. ^ "What are the odds? US nuke plants ranked by quake risk". NBC News. 2011-03-16. Retrieved 2024-08-16.
  6. ^ "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)