Kuosheng 1

Permanent Shutdown

Details

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

Timeline

Construction Start	Wednesday, 19 November 1975
First Criticality	Sunday, 1 February 1981
First Grid Connection	Thursday, 21 May 1981
Commercial Operation	Monday, 28 December 1981
Permanent Shutdown	Thursday, 1 July 2021

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 (%)
1981	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1982	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1983	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1984	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1985	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1986	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1987	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1988	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1989	951	6447	5329.05	73.60	63.00	-	64.00	-
1990	918	8201	6898.01	93.60	86.80	-	85.80	-
1991	951	6678	5850.77	76.20	71.40	-	70.20	-
1992	951	7126	6152.35	81.10	78.40	-	73.60	-
1993	951	6457	5679.52	73.70	71.10	-	68.20	-
1994	950	7077	6302.27	80.80	76.90	-	75.70	-
1995	948	7734	6897.91	88.30	84.60	76.00	83.10	74.30
1996	948	7573	6950.76	86.20	84.30	77.00	83.50	75.50
1997	948	6978	6277.80	79.70	77.50	77.10	75.60	75.50
1998	948	7209	6426.04	82.30	79.70	77.30	77.40	75.70
1999	948	8439	7686.77	96.30	93.80	78.80	92.60	77.20
2000	948	7391	6588.58	84.10	80.20	79.00	79.10	77.40
2001	948	7070	6452.28	80.70	78.80	78.90	77.70	77.40
2002	948	8693	8068.54	99.20	98.10	80.30	97.20	78.80
2003	948	6968	6444.90	79.50	78.30	80.20	77.60	78.70
2004	948	7516	6978.48	85.60	84.60	80.40	83.80	79.00
2005	948	8749	8150.12	99.90	98.40	81.50	98.10	80.20
2006	985	7325	6903.61	83.60	81.90	81.50	81.00	80.20
2007	985	7429	7104.56	84.80	82.30	81.60	82.30	80.30
2008	985	8673	8384.82	98.70	96.90	82.40	96.90	81.20
2009	985	7823	7558.45	89.30	87.50	82.60	87.60	81.50
2010	985	8150	7949.61	93.00	91.90	83.10	92.10	82.00
2011	985	8760	8564.68	100.00	99.10	83.80	99.30	82.80
2012	985	6412	6170.62	73.00	71.30	83.20	71.30	82.30
2013	985	8165	7859.12	93.20	91.00	83.60	91.10	82.60
2014	985	8664	8490.72	98.90	98.00	84.10	98.40	83.30
2015	985	7807	7575.91	89.10	87.50	84.30	87.80	83.40
2016	985	7980	7665.07	90.80	88.40	84.40	88.60	83.60
2017	985	4916	4716.99	56.10	54.60	83.40	54.70	82.60
2018	985	7486	7236.39	85.50	83.70	83.40	83.90	82.60
2019	985	8760	8549.07	100.00	99.00	83.90	99.10	83.20
2020	985	7668	7374.21	87.30	85.20	83.90	85.20	83.20
2021	985	4369	3998.06	50.40	46.60	82.80	46.80	82.10