Brunswick 2

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	Thursday, 20 March 1975
First Grid Connection	Tuesday, 29 April 1975
Commercial Operation	Monday, 3 November 1975

Specifications

Capacity Net	932 MWe
Capacity Gross	960 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 (%)
1975	821	3254	1423.80	93.20	93.20	93.20	58.80	58.80
1976	789	4911	2486.60	55.90	35.80	44.30	35.90	39.30
1977	790	4872	2436.60	55.60	35.30	40.10	35.20	37.40
1978	790	7018	4794.60	80.10	69.30	49.30	69.30	47.40
1979	790	5741	3652.10	65.50	52.80	50.10	52.80	48.70
1980	790	3086	1864.60	35.10	38.10	47.80	26.90	44.50
1981	790	5800	3283.90	66.20	68.00	51.10	47.40	45.00
1982	790	3378	1942.10	38.60	41.40	49.70	28.10	42.60
1983	790	5630	3941.70	64.30	65.30	51.60	57.00	44.40
1984	790	2236	1429.01	25.50	28.90	49.20	20.60	41.80
1985	790	6983	5021.91	79.70	80.00	52.20	72.60	44.80
1986	790	4027	2933.07	46.00	48.50	51.80	42.40	44.60
1987	790	8203	5694.10	93.60	94.00	55.30	82.30	47.70
1988	790	5361	3929.22	61.00	62.80	55.90	56.60	48.40
1989	790	5763	4195.43	65.80	67.40	56.70	60.60	49.20
1990	790	5616	4067.43	64.10	66.10	57.30	58.80	49.80
1991	754	4959	3664.18	56.60	57.80	57.30	54.00	50.10
1992	754	2200	1315.10	25.00	25.10	55.50	19.90	48.40
1993	754	5525	4000.88	63.10	63.10	55.90	60.60	49.00
1994	754	6436	4823.21	73.50	73.50	56.80	73.00	50.20
1995	754	8760	6215.96	100.00	100.00	58.90	94.10	52.40
1996	754	7277	5188.12	82.80	82.90	60.00	78.30	53.50
1997	754	7816	6055.38	89.20	89.20	61.20	91.70	55.20
1998	811	8539	6963.48	97.50	97.70	62.90	98.00	57.10
1999	811	7577	6095.17	86.50	86.50	63.90	85.80	58.40
2000	811	8616	7055.01	98.10	98.10	65.30	99.00	60.00
2001	811	7996	6540.43	91.30	91.30	66.30	92.10	61.30
2002	811	8609	7078.62	98.30	98.30	67.50	99.60	62.70
2003	811	7966	7028.09	90.90	91.00	68.40	98.90	64.10
2004	900	8639	7756.76	98.40	98.50	69.60	98.10	65.40
2005	811	7724	6781.70	88.20	88.20	70.20	95.40	66.40
2006	937	7972	7361.27	91.00	91.00	71.00	89.70	67.30
2007	937	7645	7140.26	87.30	87.30	71.60	87.00	68.00
2008	937	8448	7854.24	96.20	96.20	72.40	95.40	69.00
2009	920	7060	6410.20	80.60	80.30	72.70	79.50	69.30
2010	920	8639	8000.04	98.60	98.60	73.60	99.30	70.30
2011	920	6995	6336.69	79.80	79.90	73.80	78.60	70.60
2012	920	8704	7987.81	99.10	99.10	74.50	98.80	71.40
2013	920	7059	6385.33	80.60	80.60	74.70	79.20	71.60
2014	920	8715	7987.55	99.50	99.50	75.40	99.10	72.40
2015	920	7704	7098.43	88.00	87.90	75.80	88.10	72.90
2016	920	8784	8075.19	100.00	100.00	76.40	99.90	73.60
2017	920	8010	7191.04	91.40	91.40	76.80	89.20	74.00
2018	932	8453	7532.90	96.50	96.50	77.30	92.30	74.50
2019	932	7689	6972.51	87.80	87.80	77.60	85.40	74.80
2020	932	8740	8088.45	99.50	99.50	78.10	98.80	75.40
2021	932	8035	7450.71	91.70	91.70	78.40	91.30	75.70
2022	932	8625	7831.71	98.50	98.50	78.90	95.90	76.20
2023	932	8079	7414.54	92.20	91.10	79.20	90.80	76.60