Brunswick 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Boiling Water Reactor (or BWR)
Model	BWR-4 (Mark 1)
Owner	Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc.
Operator	Progress Energy

Timeline

Construction Start	Saturday, 7 February 1970
First Criticality	Friday, 8 October 1976
First Grid Connection	Saturday, 4 December 1976
Commercial Operation	Friday, 18 March 1977

Specifications

Capacity Net	938 MWe
Capacity Gross	990 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2923 MWt
Design Net Capacity	821 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	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1977	790	4949	2984.50	54.60	43.60	43.60	43.60	43.60
1978	790	7624	5122.90	87.00	74.10	61.00	74.00	61.00
1979	790	4778	3169.20	54.50	45.80	55.50	45.80	55.50
1980	790	6045	3939.20	68.80	69.80	59.30	56.80	55.80
1981	790	4155	2574.80	47.40	49.00	57.10	37.20	51.90
1982	790	5428	2935.40	62.00	62.90	58.10	42.40	50.20
1983	790	2116	1419.10	24.20	26.40	53.40	20.50	45.80
1984	790	6797	5037.71	77.40	79.80	56.80	72.60	49.30
1985	790	3247	1942.51	37.10	38.90	54.80	28.10	46.90
1986	790	8068	5973.81	92.10	92.20	58.60	86.30	50.90
1987	790	5651	4057.95	64.50	65.60	59.30	58.60	51.60
1988	790	6514	4458.42	74.20	74.40	60.60	64.20	52.70
1989	790	5568	4193.76	63.60	64.60	60.90	60.60	53.30
1990	790	5909	4340.35	67.40	68.40	61.40	62.70	54.00
1991	767	5849	4400.35	66.80	67.40	61.80	64.40	54.70
1992	767	2486	1874.55	28.30	28.30	59.80	27.80	53.00
1993	767	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	56.30	0.00	50.00
1994	767	7755	5956.34	88.50	88.60	58.00	88.60	52.10
1995	767	7391	5780.71	84.40	84.40	59.40	86.00	53.80
1996	767	7490	5708.15	85.30	85.30	60.70	84.70	55.40
1997	767	8558	6857.03	97.70	97.70	62.50	102.10	57.60
1998	820	7811	6360.44	89.20	89.90	63.80	88.60	59.10
1999	820	8481	6998.16	96.80	96.80	65.30	97.40	60.80
2000	820	8122	6746.48	92.50	92.50	66.50	93.70	62.30
2001	820	8760	7303.12	100.00	100.00	67.90	101.70	63.90
2002	820	7874	6697.34	89.90	89.90	68.80	93.20	65.10
2003	872	8653	7701.83	98.80	98.80	70.00	100.80	66.60
2004	872	7853	7093.38	89.40	89.40	70.80	92.60	67.60
2005	872	8275	7755.05	94.40	94.50	71.70	101.50	68.90
2006	938	7601	7190.78	86.80	86.80	72.30	87.50	69.60
2007	938	8290	7881.91	94.60	94.60	73.10	95.90	70.60
2008	938	7458	7030.63	84.90	84.90	73.50	85.30	71.20
2009	938	8493	8022.67	97.00	97.00	74.40	97.60	72.10
2010	938	7255	6810.87	82.80	82.80	74.60	82.90	72.40
2011	938	8663	8228.37	98.90	98.90	75.40	100.10	73.40
2012	938	6778	6323.87	77.20	77.20	75.50	76.80	73.50
2013	938	8483	8074.21	96.80	96.80	76.20	98.20	74.20
2014	938	7751	7347.75	88.50	88.50	76.50	89.40	74.70
2015	938	8653	8192.60	98.80	98.80	77.20	99.70	75.40
2016	938	7959	7313.54	90.60	90.60	77.60	88.80	75.80
2017	938	8685	8179.12	99.10	99.10	78.10	99.50	76.40
2018	938	7700	7094.07	87.90	87.90	78.40	86.30	76.70
2019	938	8211	7744.25	93.70	93.80	78.80	94.20	77.20
2020	938	7432	6917.77	84.60	84.60	79.00	84.00	77.30
2021	938	8447	8022.51	96.40	96.40	79.40	97.60	77.80
2022	938	8023	7555.39	91.60	91.60	79.70	92.00	78.20
2023	938	8658	8243.54	98.80	97.10	80.10	100.30	78.70