Cruas 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	CP2
Owner	EDF
Operator	EDF

Timeline

Construction Start	Tuesday, 1 August 1978
First Criticality	Saturday, 2 April 1983
First Grid Connection	Friday, 29 April 1983
Commercial Operation	Monday, 2 April 1984

Specifications

Capacity Net	915 MWe
Capacity Gross	956 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2785 MWt
Design Net Capacity	880 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	880	1150	388.40	-	-	-	-	-
1984	880	7165	5482.00	92.90	82.60	82.60	82.60	82.60
1985	880	6615	5185.20	75.50	72.00	76.50	67.30	73.90
1986	880	7377	5888.00	84.20	86.00	80.00	76.40	74.80
1987	880	6860	5359.50	78.30	81.80	80.50	69.50	73.40
1988	880	5562	4025.00	63.30	96.70	83.90	52.10	68.90
1989	880	7239	5648.89	82.60	83.60	83.80	73.30	69.60
1990	880	6809	4983.52	77.70	82.60	83.70	64.60	68.90
1991	880	5762	4477.80	65.80	65.30	81.30	58.10	67.50
1992	880	7183	5739.40	81.80	77.80	80.90	74.20	68.30
1993	880	7353	6156.63	83.90	84.60	81.30	79.90	69.50
1994	915	7498	6181.24	85.60	84.20	81.60	77.10	70.20
1995	915	5624	4630.41	64.20	62.50	79.90	57.80	69.10
1996	915	7478	6258.55	85.10	83.00	80.10	77.90	69.80
1997	915	6784	5271.22	77.40	74.10	79.70	65.80	69.50
1998	915	7864	6387.28	89.80	89.50	80.40	79.70	70.20
1999	915	7367	5890.67	84.10	83.80	80.60	73.50	70.40
2000	915	7742	6320.52	88.10	86.00	80.90	78.60	70.90
2001	915	7264	5918.31	82.90	81.10	80.90	73.80	71.10
2002	915	7349	6069.76	83.90	80.50	80.90	75.70	71.40
2003	915	7403	6120.53	84.50	81.10	80.90	76.40	71.60
2004	915	6907	5866.08	78.60	76.10	80.70	73.00	71.70
2005	915	6311	5345.43	72.00	70.60	80.20	66.70	71.40
2006	915	7716	6491.00	88.10	83.70	80.40	81.00	71.90
2007	915	5506	4468.50	62.80	55.90	79.30	55.80	71.20
2008	915	7285	6281.45	82.90	79.30	79.30	78.20	71.50
2009	915	6016	5066.64	68.70	63.40	78.70	63.20	71.20
2010	915	7413	6529.54	84.60	82.20	78.80	81.50	71.50
2011	915	6573	5791.82	75.00	72.80	78.60	72.30	71.60
2012	915	6640	5896.70	75.60	73.50	78.40	73.40	71.60
2013	915	7087	6325.06	80.90	79.90	78.50	78.90	71.90
2014	915	7720	6767.39	88.10	86.30	78.70	84.40	72.30
2015	915	4245	3668.25	48.50	45.90	77.70	45.80	71.40
2016	915	7417	6374.97	84.40	80.00	77.80	79.30	71.70
2017	915	4655	3987.13	53.10	49.90	76.90	49.70	71.00
2018	915	7364	6471.31	84.10	80.90	77.00	80.70	71.30
2019	915	5891	5215.27	67.20	65.20	76.70	65.10	71.10
2020	915	7161	6241.26	81.50	79.60	76.80	77.60	71.30
2021	915	4932	4211.93	56.30	53.40	76.20	52.60	70.80
2022	915	7711	6879.40	88.00	86.70	76.40	85.80	71.20
2023	915	4596	3816.03	52.50	48.40	75.70	47.60	70.60