Dresden 3

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Boiling Water Reactor (or BWR)
Model	BWR-3 (Mark 1)
Owner	Exelon Corporation
Operator	Exelon Generation Co., Llc

Timeline

Construction Start	Friday, 14 October 1966
First Criticality	Tuesday, 12 January 1971
First Grid Connection	Thursday, 22 July 1971
Commercial Operation	Tuesday, 16 November 1971

Specifications

Capacity Net	879 MWe
Capacity Gross	935 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2957 MWt
Design Net Capacity	794 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 (%)
1971	815	2137	1188.60	32.40	100.00	100.00	27.90	27.90
1972	815	7549	5175.60	85.90	100.00	100.00	72.30	68.80
1973	800	5905	3703.60	67.40	69.20	85.40	52.80	61.20
1974	800	5778	3608.90	66.00	65.80	79.10	51.50	58.10
1975	800	4505	2211.20	51.40	31.50	67.50	31.60	51.60
1976	781	7231	4037.20	82.30	58.80	65.80	58.80	53.00
1977	773	8072	5186.40	92.20	76.60	67.60	76.60	56.80
1978	773	6280	3835.30	71.70	56.60	66.00	56.60	56.80
1979	773	5930	3482.90	67.70	51.40	64.30	51.40	56.10
1980	773	6307	4335.50	71.80	72.30	65.20	63.80	57.00
1981	773	8256	5177.70	94.20	94.50	68.00	76.50	58.90
1982	773	5562	3896.40	63.50	63.80	67.60	57.50	58.70
1983	773	6401	4159.70	73.10	73.10	68.10	61.40	59.00
1984	773	3309	2135.50	37.70	37.70	65.80	31.40	56.90
1985	773	6618	4401.33	75.60	75.60	66.50	65.00	57.40
1986	773	2456	1498.30	28.00	28.10	64.00	22.10	55.10
1987	773	6591	4395.50	75.20	75.30	64.60	64.90	55.70
1988	773	6278	4168.36	71.50	71.50	65.00	61.40	56.10
1989	773	7235	5119.46	82.60	82.60	66.00	75.60	57.10
1990	773	7272	5149.79	83.00	83.00	66.90	76.00	58.10
1991	773	5247	2584.21	59.90	59.90	66.60	38.20	57.10
1992	773	5364	3077.06	61.10	61.10	66.30	45.30	56.60
1993	773	7040	4969.04	80.40	80.40	66.90	73.40	57.30
1994	773	3009	1666.36	34.40	34.40	65.50	24.60	55.90
1995	773	5209	3477.26	59.50	59.50	65.30	51.40	55.70
1996	773	4273	2962.14	48.60	48.90	64.60	43.60	55.30
1997	773	5900	4046.20	67.40	68.60	64.80	59.80	55.40
1998	773	8157	6234.59	93.10	93.10	65.80	92.10	56.80
1999	773	7978	6129.96	91.10	91.10	66.70	90.50	58.00
2000	773	8243	6365.12	93.80	93.80	67.60	93.70	59.20
2001	773	8359	6465.95	95.40	95.40	68.60	95.50	60.40
2002	850	7915	6060.87	90.40	90.50	69.30	87.30	61.30
2003	850	8206	6963.86	93.70	94.20	70.10	93.50	62.40
2004	850	7544	6436.94	85.90	85.90	70.60	86.20	63.20
2005	850	8169	7032.37	93.20	93.30	71.40	94.40	64.10
2006	867	8298	7171.93	94.70	94.70	72.10	94.40	65.10
2007	867	8715	7558.09	99.50	99.50	72.90	99.50	66.10
2008	867	8118	6919.05	92.40	92.40	73.50	90.80	66.90
2009	867	8557	7364.79	97.70	97.70	74.20	97.00	67.70
2010	867	8076	6866.24	92.20	92.20	74.70	90.40	68.40
2011	867	8760	7533.02	100.00	100.00	75.40	99.20	69.20
2012	867	8218	6892.73	93.60	93.70	75.90	90.50	69.80
2013	867	8590	7869.99	98.00	98.10	76.40	103.60	70.60
2014	879	8361	7549.85	95.40	95.50	76.90	98.00	71.30
2015	879	8595	7832.94	98.10	98.10	77.40	101.70	72.10
2016	879	8376	7397.58	95.40	95.40	77.90	95.80	72.70
2017	895	8760	8036.77	100.00	100.00	78.40	102.50	73.40
2018	879	8401	7514.36	95.90	95.90	78.80	97.60	73.90
2019	879	8674	7942.88	99.00	99.00	79.30	103.20	74.60
2020	879	8372	7512.35	95.30	95.30	79.60	97.30	75.10
2021	879	8286	7411.09	94.60	94.60	80.00	96.20	75.60
2022	879	8251	7389.46	94.20	94.20	80.20	96.00	76.00
2023	879	8675	7845.87	99.00	98.00	80.60	101.90	76.50