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Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (or PHWR)
Model	CANDU 6
Owner	Nucleoelectrica Argentina S.A.
Operator	Nucleoelectrica Argentina S.A.

Timeline

Construction Start	Sunday, 31 March 1974
First Criticality	Sunday, 13 March 1983
First Grid Connection	Monday, 25 April 1983
Commercial Operation	Friday, 20 January 1984

Specifications

Capacity Net	608 MWe
Capacity Gross	656 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2064 MWt
Design Net Capacity	608 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 (%)
1983	600	2098	815.40	-	-	-	-	-
1984	600	6355	2527.07	70.60	68.70	68.70	44.30	44.30
1985	600	8170	3778.57	93.30	93.40	81.60	71.90	58.70
1986	600	5847	3061.67	66.80	66.30	76.40	58.20	58.50
1987	600	7951	4577.05	90.80	87.90	79.30	87.10	65.80
1988	600	7798	4560.58	88.80	88.80	81.30	86.50	70.00
1989	600	7804	4658.98	89.10	89.10	82.60	88.60	73.20
1990	600	8404	5000.74	95.90	95.10	84.40	95.10	76.40
1991	600	7855	4498.81	89.70	85.80	84.60	85.60	77.50
1992	600	7440	4353.98	84.70	81.60	84.20	82.60	78.10
1993	600	7956	4773.27	90.80	90.60	84.90	90.80	79.40
1994	600	8575	5157.89	97.90	97.80	86.00	98.10	81.10
1995	600	6541	3897.91	74.70	74.30	85.10	74.20	80.50
1996	600	8176	4891.97	93.10	92.80	85.70	92.80	81.50
1997	600	7821	4737.03	89.30	89.30	85.90	90.10	82.10
1998	600	7629	4555.43	87.10	86.90	86.00	86.70	82.40
1999	598	8700	5201.79	99.30	99.10	86.80	99.30	83.40
2000	643	6837	4064.48	77.80	78.10	86.30	72.00	82.70
2001	600	8564	5128.11	97.80	97.40	86.90	97.60	83.60
2002	600	7401	4385.52	84.50	83.40	86.70	83.40	83.60
2003	600	8367	5004.14	95.50	95.10	87.10	95.20	84.10
2004	600	7704	4589.57	87.70	87.50	87.10	87.10	84.30
2005	600	7341	4372.48	83.80	83.30	87.00	83.20	84.20
2006	600	8455	5052.10	96.50	96.20	87.40	96.10	84.70
2007	600	6771	4003.72	77.30	76.50	86.90	76.20	84.40
2008	600	7382	4368.61	84.00	82.90	86.80	82.90	84.30
2009	600	8705	5192.43	99.40	98.80	87.20	98.80	84.90
2010	600	6701	3908.69	76.50	74.40	86.70	74.40	84.50
2011	600	7405	3559.35	84.50	67.70	86.10	67.70	83.90
2012	600	7214	3425.53	82.10	65.10	85.30	65.00	83.20
2013	600	6841	3285.69	78.10	69.60	84.80	62.50	82.60
2014	600	3678	1533.11	42.00	99.80	85.30	29.20	80.80
2015	600	1564	641.36	17.80	99.80	85.80	12.20	78.70
2016	600	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	83.10	0.00	76.30
2017	600	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	80.70	0.00	74.00
2018	600	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	78.40	0.00	71.90
2019	608	7051	3786.17	80.50	71.80	78.20	71.10	71.90
2020	608	8447	4910.14	96.20	91.90	78.60	91.90	72.50
2021	608	7227	4340.06	82.50	81.50	78.70	81.50	72.70
2022	608	6993	4176.48	79.80	78.40	78.60	78.40	72.80
2023	608	8660	5224.06	98.90	98.00	79.10	98.10	73.50