Oyster Creek

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Boiling Water Reactor (or BWR)
Model	BWR-2 (Mark 1)
Owner	Exelon Corporation
Operator	Exelon Generation Co., Llc

Timeline

Construction Start	Tuesday, 15 December 1964
First Criticality	Saturday, 3 May 1969
First Grid Connection	Tuesday, 23 September 1969
Commercial Operation	Monday, 1 December 1969
Permanent Shutdown	Monday, 17 September 2018

Specifications

Capacity Net	619 MWe
Capacity Gross	652 MWe
Thermal Capacity	1930 MWt
Design Net Capacity	650 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 (%)
1969	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1970	540	6788	3591.00	77.50	100.00	100.00	75.90	75.90
1971	595	7046	3972.60	80.40	100.00	100.00	76.20	76.10
1972	670	7137	4503.80	81.20	100.00	100.00	76.50	76.20
1973	620	6401	3589.00	73.10	73.80	93.30	66.10	73.60
1974	650	6163	3679.60	70.40	66.60	87.70	64.60	71.70
1975	610	6414	3148.70	73.20	59.10	82.90	58.90	69.60
1976	620	6966	3860.10	79.30	70.90	81.20	70.90	69.80
1977	620	6136	3249.20	70.00	59.90	78.50	59.80	68.60
1978	620	6508	3645.70	74.30	66.50	77.20	67.10	68.40
1979	620	7520	4563.30	85.80	83.80	77.80	84.00	70.00
1980	620	3662	1957.30	41.70	41.80	74.60	35.90	66.80
1981	620	5237	2628.90	59.80	59.90	73.30	48.40	65.30
1982	620	5474	2013.00	62.50	62.50	72.50	37.10	63.10
1983	620	1007	225.50	11.50	11.50	68.10	4.20	58.90
1984	620	842	305.19	9.60	9.60	64.20	5.60	55.30
1985	620	6518	3746.03	74.40	74.50	64.80	69.00	56.20
1986	620	2310	1317.69	26.40	26.70	62.60	24.30	54.30
1987	620	5421	3113.39	61.90	62.00	62.60	57.30	54.50
1988	620	5749	3547.30	65.40	65.50	62.70	65.10	55.00
1989	620	4686	2410.11	53.50	53.60	62.30	44.40	54.50
1990	620	7678	4305.05	87.60	87.70	63.50	79.30	55.70
1991	610	5167	2954.84	59.00	59.00	63.30	54.50	55.60
1992	610	7463	4531.84	85.00	84.90	64.20	84.60	56.90
1993	610	7654	4667.48	87.40	87.40	65.20	87.40	58.10
1994	619	6096	3633.28	69.60	69.20	65.30	67.90	58.50
1995	619	8511	5194.08	97.20	97.20	66.50	95.80	59.90
1996	619	7104	4339.40	80.90	80.90	67.10	79.80	60.70
1997	619	8164	5073.28	93.20	93.20	68.00	93.60	61.90
1998	619	7094	4302.23	81.00	81.00	68.50	79.30	62.50
1999	619	8760	5388.51	100.00	100.00	69.50	99.40	63.70
2000	619	7073	3908.20	80.50	80.60	69.90	71.90	64.00
2001	619	8497	5226.37	97.00	97.00	70.70	96.40	65.00
2002	619	8215	5031.27	93.80	93.80	71.40	92.80	65.80
2003	619	8468	5256.32	96.70	96.70	72.20	96.90	66.70
2004	619	7973	4846.97	90.80	90.80	72.70	89.10	67.40
2005	619	8706	5374.91	99.40	99.40	73.40	99.10	68.30
2006	619	7775	4644.53	88.80	88.80	73.90	85.60	68.70
2007	619	8435	5077.93	96.30	96.30	74.40	93.60	69.40
2008	619	7924	4664.01	90.20	90.20	74.80	85.80	69.80
2009	614	8320	4978.40	95.00	95.00	75.40	92.60	70.40
2010	614	7661	4604.97	87.40	87.50	75.60	85.60	70.70
2011	619	8541	5298.45	97.50	97.50	76.20	97.70	71.40
2012	619	7663	4718.19	87.20	88.50	76.50	86.80	71.80
2013	619	8324	5116.69	95.00	95.00	76.90	94.40	72.30
2014	619	7859	4833.53	89.70	89.70	77.20	89.10	72.60
2015	619	8484	5275.79	96.80	96.80	77.60	97.30	73.20
2016	619	7553	4585.20	86.00	86.00	77.80	84.30	73.40
2017	619	8703	5429.57	99.40	99.40	78.20	100.10	74.00
2018	619	6227	3540.31	99.80	97.00	78.50	91.70	74.20