Kuosheng 2

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Boiling Water Reactor (or BWR)
Model	BWR-6
Owner	Taiwan Power Co.
Operator	Taiwan Power Co.

Timeline

Construction Start	Monday, 15 March 1976
First Criticality	Friday, 26 March 1982
First Grid Connection	Tuesday, 29 June 1982
Commercial Operation	Wednesday, 16 March 1983
Permanent Shutdown	Wednesday, 15 March 2023

Specifications

Capacity Net	985 MWe
Capacity Gross	985 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2894 MWt
Design Net Capacity	948 MWe

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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 (%)
1982	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1983	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1984	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1985	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1986	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1987	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1988	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1989	951	6390	5227.30	73.00	61.90	-	62.80	-
1990	936	6819	6000.55	77.80	73.50	-	73.20	-
1991	951	8101	7186.35	92.50	89.30	-	86.30	-
1992	951	6985	6176.28	79.50	76.80	-	73.90	-
1993	951	6921	6138.11	79.00	74.90	-	73.70	-
1994	950	6868	6224.08	78.40	74.80	75.20	74.80	74.10
1995	948	6543	5999.72	74.70	72.20	74.80	72.20	73.80
1996	948	7978	7423.24	90.80	89.60	76.60	89.10	75.80
1997	948	7745	7087.25	88.40	86.10	77.70	85.30	76.80
1998	948	7242	6549.57	82.70	79.40	77.80	78.90	77.00
1999	948	7544	6831.88	86.10	84.20	78.40	82.30	77.50
2000	948	8234	7237.59	93.70	89.30	79.30	86.90	78.30
2001	948	6772	5976.73	77.30	72.40	78.80	72.00	77.80
2002	948	7530	6922.55	86.00	85.00	79.20	83.40	78.20
2003	948	8427	7623.10	96.20	93.50	80.20	91.80	79.10
2004	948	7301	6493.97	83.10	79.80	80.20	78.00	79.00
2005	948	7424	6737.82	84.80	82.30	80.30	81.10	79.20
2006	948	8560	7868.39	97.70	95.90	81.20	94.80	80.00
2007	948	7716	7031.52	88.10	86.10	81.40	84.70	80.30
2008	948	8029	7304.97	91.40	87.70	81.70	87.70	80.60
2009	948	8739	8068.14	99.80	97.20	82.50	97.20	81.40
2010	948	7649	6997.81	87.30	84.30	82.60	84.30	81.60
2011	985	7909	7443.47	90.30	88.80	82.80	89.30	81.90
2012	985	8765	8530.25	99.80	98.50	83.50	98.60	82.60
2013	985	8057	7784.60	92.00	90.20	83.80	90.20	82.90
2014	985	8098	7917.00	92.40	91.30	84.10	91.80	83.30
2015	985	8760	8571.33	100.00	98.90	84.60	99.30	83.90
2016	985	2450	2415.47	27.90	79.10	84.40	27.90	81.80
2017	985	0	0.00	0.00	75.10	84.10	0.00	78.90
2018	985	4960	4661.56	56.60	54.00	83.10	54.00	78.10
2019	985	7712	7481.74	88.00	86.60	83.20	86.70	78.40
2020	985	7801	7589.27	88.80	87.60	83.30	87.70	78.70
2021	985	8587	8263.28	98.00	95.70	83.70	95.80	79.20
2022	985	7793	7512.73	89.00	87.00	83.80	87.10	79.40
2023	985	1746	1720.15	100.00	99.90	83.90	100.20	79.50