Browns Ferry 2

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Boiling Water Reactor (or BWR)
Model	BWR-4 (Mark 1)
Owner	Tennessee Valley Authority
Operator	Tennessee Valley Authority

Timeline

Construction Start	Monday, 1 May 1967
First Criticality	Saturday, 20 July 1974
First Grid Connection	Wednesday, 28 August 1974
Commercial Operation	Saturday, 1 March 1975
Long-term Shutdown	Friday, 1 March 1985
Restart	Friday, 24 May 1991

Specifications

Capacity Net	1200 MWe
Capacity Gross	1259 MWe
Thermal Capacity	3458 MWt
Design Net Capacity	1065 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 (%)
1974	1065	1998	1123.80	-	-	-	-	-
1975	1065	1578	1425.70	7.00	7.00	7.00	7.00	7.00
1976	1065	2547	1567.20	29.00	16.80	12.40	16.80	12.30
1977	1065	6963	6225.00	79.50	66.80	31.50	66.70	31.50
1978	1065	6032	5547.50	68.90	59.40	38.80	59.50	38.80
1979	1065	7593	7441.40	86.70	79.80	47.20	79.80	47.20
1980	1065	6073	5618.40	69.10	69.50	51.10	60.10	49.40
1981	1065	7452	7471.90	85.10	85.20	56.00	80.10	53.90
1982	1065	4778	4450.90	54.50	54.90	55.90	47.70	53.10
1983	1065	6514	6385.60	74.40	74.80	58.00	68.40	54.80
1984	1065	5844	4044.37	66.50	66.60	58.90	43.20	53.70
1985	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1986	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1987	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1988	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1989	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1990	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1991	1065	4125	3804.01	80.30	80.40	59.20	69.50	53.70
1992	1065	8401	8388.77	95.60	95.70	62.40	89.70	56.80
1993	1065	5753	5776.84	65.70	65.70	62.60	61.90	57.20
1994	1065	7234	7345.17	82.60	82.60	64.10	78.70	58.80
1995	1065	8629	9197.03	98.50	98.50	66.40	98.60	61.50
1996	1065	7795	8046.29	88.70	88.70	67.90	86.00	63.10
1997	1065	8130	8372.93	92.80	92.80	69.40	89.80	64.70
1998	1065	8730	9301.04	99.70	99.70	71.10	99.70	66.70
1999	1118	7985	8586.32	91.20	91.00	72.20	89.10	68.00
2000	1118	8727	9733.46	99.40	99.40	73.70	99.10	69.60
2001	1118	7636	8414.56	87.20	87.20	74.30	85.90	70.40
2002	1118	8269	8911.26	94.40	94.40	75.30	91.00	71.40
2003	1118	7888	8369.22	90.00	90.10	76.00	85.50	72.10
2004	1118	8715	9785.98	99.20	99.20	77.00	99.60	73.30
2005	1118	8052	8802.16	91.90	91.90	77.60	89.90	74.00
2006	1118	8365	9232.64	95.50	95.50	78.40	94.30	74.80
2007	1104	7229	7606.63	82.50	80.70	78.40	78.60	75.00
2008	1104	8545	9429.92	97.30	97.30	79.20	97.20	75.80
2009	1103	7122	7808.51	81.30	81.30	79.20	80.80	76.00
2010	1104	8568	8842.51	97.80	97.80	79.90	91.40	76.50
2011	1104	7092	7720.39	81.00	81.00	79.90	79.80	76.60
2012	1104	8685	9576.00	98.90	98.90	80.50	98.80	77.30
2013	1104	7527	7997.82	85.90	85.90	80.70	82.70	77.50
2014	1104	8657	9481.43	98.80	98.80	81.20	98.00	78.10
2015	1104	7947	8591.32	90.70	90.70	81.50	88.80	78.40
2016	1104	8722	9523.24	99.30	99.30	82.00	98.20	79.00
2017	1104	7940	8395.47	90.60	90.60	82.30	86.80	79.20
2018	1104	8622	9460.54	98.40	98.40	82.70	97.80	79.70
2019	1200	7399	8448.74	84.50	84.80	82.80	83.10	79.80
2020	1200	8368	10098.92	95.30	95.30	83.10	95.80	80.20
2021	1200	7440	9186.32	84.90	84.90	83.20	87.40	80.40
2022	1200	8760	10981.47	100.00	100.00	83.60	104.50	81.10
2023	1200	7979	9813.14	91.10	90.80	83.80	93.40	81.40