Browns Ferry 3

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 July 1968
First Criticality	Sunday, 8 August 1976
First Grid Connection	Sunday, 12 September 1976
Commercial Operation	Tuesday, 1 March 1977
Long-term Shutdown	Friday, 1 March 1985
Restart	Wednesday, 1 November 1995

Specifications

Capacity Net	1210 MWe
Capacity Gross	1260 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 (%)
1976	1065	1994	1416.90	-	-	-	-	-
1977	1065	7857	7247.50	88.50	74.80	74.80	74.80	74.80
1978	1065	6225	5554.30	71.10	59.50	66.50	59.50	66.50
1979	1065	5704	5482.50	65.10	58.80	63.80	58.80	63.80
1980	1065	6949	6936.10	79.10	79.30	67.80	74.10	66.50
1981	1065	6358	6264.80	72.60	72.60	68.80	67.20	66.60
1982	1065	5022	4892.80	57.30	57.40	66.90	52.40	64.20
1983	1065	5417	5394.30	61.80	61.90	66.10	57.80	63.30
1984	1065	503	290.50	5.70	5.80	58.40	3.10	55.60
1985	1065	1496	1526.47	90.80	90.80	59.10	87.00	56.20
1986	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1987	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1988	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1989	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1990	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1991	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1992	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1993	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1994	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1995	1065	810	764.62	79.40	79.50	59.40	70.40	56.40
1996	1065	8412	8803.50	95.80	95.80	63.40	94.10	60.60
1997	1065	8302	8523.36	94.80	94.80	66.50	91.40	63.60
1998	1118	7863	7884.88	89.80	89.90	68.60	83.50	65.40
1999	1118	8760	9730.59	100.00	100.00	71.30	99.40	68.30
2000	1118	8311	9097.37	94.60	94.60	73.20	92.60	70.30
2001	1118	8760	9803.36	100.00	100.00	75.10	100.10	72.40
2002	1118	8407	9260.08	96.00	96.00	76.60	94.60	74.00
2003	1118	8463	9325.73	96.60	96.60	77.80	95.20	75.30
2004	1118	8000	8701.83	91.10	91.10	78.60	88.60	76.10
2005	1114	8384	9153.72	95.70	95.70	79.60	93.80	77.10
2006	1114	7974	8638.83	91.00	91.10	80.20	88.30	77.70
2007	1105	8372	9086.06	95.60	95.60	81.00	93.90	78.50
2008	1104	6794	7300.59	77.40	76.40	80.80	75.30	78.40
2009	1104	8433	9175.41	96.30	95.90	81.50	94.90	79.10
2010	1105	7625	7858.11	87.00	87.10	81.70	81.20	79.20
2011	1105	7731	8451.13	88.20	88.30	82.00	87.30	79.60
2012	1105	7455	7999.54	84.90	84.90	82.10	82.40	79.70
2013	1105	8443	9234.30	96.40	96.40	82.70	95.40	80.30
2014	1105	7911	8565.45	90.30	90.30	82.90	88.50	80.60
2015	1105	8760	9623.05	100.00	100.00	83.60	99.40	81.30
2016	1105	7906	8308.77	90.00	90.00	83.80	85.60	81.40
2017	1105	8760	9651.06	100.00	100.00	84.30	99.70	82.00
2018	1105	7243	8099.12	82.70	82.70	84.30	83.70	82.10
2019	1210	8390	10313.85	95.80	95.80	84.70	97.30	82.60
2020	1210	7870	9501.81	89.60	89.60	84.80	89.40	82.80
2021	1210	8760	10922.05	100.00	100.00	85.30	103.00	83.50
2022	1210	7645	8947.91	87.30	87.30	85.40	84.40	83.50
2023	1210	8573	10261.99	97.90	96.80	85.70	96.80	83.90