Cruas 4

Operable

Details

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

Timeline

Construction Start	Monday, 1 October 1979
First Criticality	Monday, 1 October 1984
First Grid Connection	Saturday, 27 October 1984
Commercial Operation	Monday, 11 February 1985

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 (%)
1984	880	1158	671.00	-	-	-	-	-
1985	880	7434	5773.60	84.30	85.70	85.70	73.50	73.50
1986	880	6816	5452.60	77.80	76.70	81.00	70.70	72.10
1987	880	6888	5313.40	78.60	84.20	82.10	68.90	71.00
1988	880	4271	3247.00	48.60	74.20	80.10	42.00	63.60
1989	880	6025	4852.19	68.80	71.30	78.30	62.90	63.40
1990	880	7607	6215.34	86.80	86.00	79.60	80.60	66.40
1991	880	7259	6005.38	82.90	81.10	79.80	77.90	68.00
1992	880	5862	4953.60	66.70	65.00	77.90	64.10	67.50
1993	880	6653	5279.97	76.00	77.10	77.80	68.50	67.60
1994	915	6856	5552.11	78.30	83.80	78.50	69.30	67.80
1995	915	7375	6280.30	84.20	82.10	78.80	78.40	68.80
1996	915	7180	5886.51	81.70	79.40	78.90	73.20	69.20
1997	915	7334	5976.62	83.70	80.20	79.00	74.60	69.60
1998	915	7885	6629.20	90.00	85.50	79.40	82.70	70.60
1999	915	7159	5829.81	81.70	81.90	79.60	72.70	70.70
2000	915	7915	6630.69	90.10	88.40	80.20	82.50	71.50
2001	915	7172	5915.77	81.90	80.60	80.20	73.80	71.60
2002	915	7474	6399.58	85.30	82.90	80.40	79.80	72.10
2003	915	7371	6296.69	84.10	81.60	80.40	78.60	72.40
2004	915	7443	6377.38	84.70	80.60	80.40	79.40	72.80
2005	915	7360	6255.06	84.00	79.60	80.40	78.00	73.00
2006	915	4259	3752.65	48.60	47.60	78.90	46.80	71.80
2007	915	5839	4947.25	66.70	61.70	78.10	61.70	71.40
2008	915	7011	6228.77	79.80	77.40	78.10	77.50	71.60
2009	915	7347	6321.83	83.90	79.50	78.20	78.90	71.90
2010	915	5779	5107.05	66.00	63.80	77.60	63.70	71.60
2011	915	7938	7152.54	90.60	89.20	78.00	89.20	72.30
2012	915	4853	4305.94	55.20	53.30	77.10	53.60	71.60
2013	915	7727	6916.18	88.20	86.00	77.40	86.30	72.10
2014	915	5611	4677.86	64.00	58.40	76.80	58.40	71.60
2015	915	7267	6465.66	83.00	81.10	76.90	80.70	71.90
2016	915	5435	4642.10	61.90	57.70	76.30	57.80	71.50
2017	915	7187	6395.66	82.00	80.20	76.40	79.80	71.80
2018	915	5821	5094.14	66.40	63.60	76.10	63.60	71.50
2019	915	7017	5902.70	80.10	73.90	76.00	73.60	71.60
2020	915	6262	5265.57	71.30	65.90	75.70	65.50	71.40
2021	915	6851	5846.62	78.20	75.80	75.70	72.90	71.40
2022	915	4363	3668.57	49.80	45.80	74.90	45.80	70.80
2023	915	6695	5923.87	76.40	74.50	74.90	73.90	70.80