Braidwood 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	W (4-loop)
Owner	Exelon Corporation
Operator	Exelon Generation Co., Llc

Timeline

Construction Start	Friday, 1 August 1975
First Criticality	Friday, 29 May 1987
First Grid Connection	Sunday, 12 July 1987
Commercial Operation	Friday, 29 July 1988

Specifications

Capacity Net	1194 MWe
Capacity Gross	1270 MWe
Thermal Capacity	3645 MWt
Design Net Capacity	1120 MWe

Operational History

Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Energy Availability Factor (%)

Total Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Reactor History

Year	Reference Unit Power (MWe)	Annual Time Online (Hours)	Electricity Supplied (GWh)	Operation Factor (%)	Energy Availability Annual (%)	Energy Availability Cumulative (%)	Load Factor Annual (%)	Load Factor Cumulative (%)
1987	1120	2611	1456.65	-	-	-	-	-
1988	1120	3409	3424.22	91.30	91.60	91.60	81.80	81.80
1989	1120	5435	4649.10	62.00	62.20	70.90	47.40	57.60
1990	1120	7778	8264.58	88.80	89.10	78.40	84.20	68.60
1991	1120	5198	5018.62	59.30	59.40	72.90	51.20	63.50
1992	1120	7142	7157.93	81.30	81.40	74.80	72.80	65.60
1993	1120	8048	8693.12	91.90	92.10	78.00	88.60	69.80
1994	1120	6940	7398.15	79.20	79.80	78.30	75.40	70.70
1995	1120	6214	6614.28	70.90	71.80	77.40	67.40	70.30
1996	1120	7021	7618.88	79.90	80.50	77.80	77.40	71.10
1997	1120	7339	8096.33	83.80	84.00	78.40	82.50	72.30
1998	1100	6976	7578.79	79.60	79.90	78.60	77.40	72.80
1999	1120	8680	9904.81	99.10	99.10	80.40	101.00	75.30
2000	1100	8335	9311.32	94.90	95.00	81.50	96.10	76.90
2001	1168	8247	9557.87	94.10	94.00	82.50	97.70	78.50
2002	1161	8760	10612.24	100.00	100.00	83.70	104.10	80.30
2003	1161	8353	10094.77	95.40	95.30	84.50	99.30	81.60
2004	1161	8310	9807.19	94.60	94.50	85.10	96.20	82.50
2005	1185	8630	10276.96	98.50	98.50	85.90	99.00	83.50
2006	1178	8352	9945.95	95.30	95.40	86.50	96.40	84.20
2007	1178	8119	9526.68	92.70	92.70	86.80	92.30	84.60
2008	1178	8784	10462.94	100.00	100.00	87.50	101.10	85.50
2009	1178	8259	9826.25	94.30	94.30	87.80	95.20	86.00
2010	1178	7806	9196.69	89.10	89.10	87.90	89.10	86.10
2011	1178	8760	10411.70	100.00	100.00	88.40	100.90	86.80
2012	1178	7969	9388.44	90.70	90.70	88.50	90.70	86.90
2013	1178	8238	9754.57	94.00	94.00	88.70	94.50	87.20
2014	1194	8760	10599.62	100.00	100.00	89.20	101.30	87.80
2015	1194	8298	9994.36	94.70	94.70	89.40	95.60	88.10
2016	1194	8058	9622.74	91.70	91.70	89.50	91.80	88.20
2017	1194	8737	10579.19	99.70	99.70	89.80	101.10	88.70
2018	1194	8208	9803.97	93.70	93.80	90.00	93.70	88.80
2019	1194	8360	9986.33	95.40	95.40	90.10	95.50	89.10
2020	1194	8783	10604.45	100.00	100.00	90.40	101.10	89.40
2021	1194	8264	9853.70	94.30	94.30	90.60	94.20	89.60
2022	1194	8308	9898.29	94.80	94.80	90.70	94.60	89.70
2023	1194	8760	10562.93	100.00	100.00	91.00	101.00	90.10