Phenix

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Fast Reactor (or FBR)
Model	PH-250
Owner	CEA
Operator	CEA (80%), EDF (20%)

Timeline

Construction Start	Friday, 1 November 1968
First Criticality	Friday, 31 August 1973
First Grid Connection	Thursday, 13 December 1973
Commercial Operation	Sunday, 14 July 1974
Permanent Shutdown	Monday, 1 February 2010

Specifications

Capacity Net	130 MWe
Capacity Gross	142 MWe
Thermal Capacity	345 MWt
Design Net Capacity	233 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 (%)
1973	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1974	233	4716	958.00	79.60	71.50	71.50	71.50	71.50
1975	233	5932	1308.40	67.70	64.10	66.60	64.10	66.60
1976	233	4799	950.80	54.60	46.70	58.60	46.50	58.50
1977	233	2120	300.80	24.20	15.50	46.30	14.70	46.00
1978	233	5905	1238.80	67.40	60.90	49.60	60.70	49.30
1979	233	7350	1719.00	83.90	84.00	55.80	84.20	55.60
1980	233	5679	1319.00	64.60	64.70	57.20	64.40	57.00
1981	233	6217	1421.90	71.00	69.90	58.90	69.70	58.70
1982	233	5429	989.10	62.00	48.60	57.70	48.50	57.50
1983	233	5515	1122.00	63.00	55.10	57.40	55.00	57.20
1984	233	6206	1414.00	70.60	53.70	57.00	69.10	58.40
1985	233	6784	1153.00	77.40	60.40	57.30	56.50	58.20
1986	233	6996	1519.10	79.90	73.20	58.60	74.40	59.50
1987	233	7059	1556.40	80.60	71.50	59.60	76.20	60.70
1988	233	6300	1475.40	71.70	71.40	60.40	72.10	61.50
1989	233	2678	601.18	30.60	29.60	58.40	29.40	59.40
1990	233	4637	982.46	52.90	47.90	57.80	48.10	58.80
1991	233	0	0.00	0.00	58.60	57.80	0.00	55.40
1992	233	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	54.70	0.00	52.40
1993	233	286	34.79	3.30	94.20	56.70	1.70	49.80
1994	233	184	22.60	2.10	17.10	54.80	1.10	47.40
1995	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1996	233	0	2.71	0.00	0.00	52.20	0.10	45.20
1997	130	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	50.90	0.00	44.10
1998	130	3019	382.18	34.50	58.60	51.10	33.60	43.80
1999	130	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	49.90	0.00	42.80
2000	130	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	48.70	0.00	41.80
2001	130	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	47.60	0.00	40.80
2002	130	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	46.50	0.00	39.90
2003	130	711	61.82	8.10	6.20	45.60	5.40	39.10
2004	130	4888	626.91	55.60	55.10	45.80	54.90	39.50
2005	130	6341	804.53	72.40	71.20	46.40	70.60	40.10
2006	130	4601	591.00	52.50	51.90	46.50	51.90	40.40
2007	130	4452	565.14	50.80	49.60	46.50	49.60	40.60
2008	130	5312	664.62	60.50	60.20	46.80	58.20	40.90
2009	130	1999	245.99	22.80	22.50	46.30	21.60	40.50
2010	130	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	46.30	0.00	40.50