Tricastin 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	CP1
Owner	EDF
Operator	EDF

Timeline

Construction Start	Friday, 1 November 1974
First Criticality	Thursday, 21 February 1980
First Grid Connection	Saturday, 31 May 1980
Commercial Operation	Monday, 1 December 1980

Specifications

Capacity Net	915 MWe
Capacity Gross	955 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2785 MWt
Design Net Capacity	915 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 (%)
1980	920	3412	2468.00	97.00	56.60	56.60	95.80	95.80
1981	920	5176	4416.00	59.10	56.30	56.40	54.80	58.00
1982	915	8151	5909.80	93.00	81.90	68.60	73.70	65.50
1983	915	6097	5111.00	69.60	67.20	68.10	63.80	65.00
1984	915	7662	6468.00	87.20	86.70	72.70	80.50	68.80
1985	915	7560	6217.90	86.30	81.60	74.40	77.60	70.50
1986	915	7188	5880.30	82.00	77.00	74.90	73.40	71.00
1987	915	7360	5978.10	84.00	78.20	75.30	74.60	71.50
1988	915	7200	5836.00	82.00	76.70	75.50	72.60	71.60
1989	915	7550	5830.15	86.20	83.20	76.30	72.70	71.70
1990	915	6377	5099.69	72.80	65.10	75.20	63.60	70.90
1991	915	7262	5909.12	82.90	77.00	75.40	73.70	71.20
1992	915	7573	5659.31	86.20	83.00	76.00	70.40	71.10
1993	915	7393	6134.82	84.40	77.70	76.10	76.50	71.50
1994	915	6458	5008.42	73.70	70.30	75.70	62.50	70.90
1995	915	6374	5372.68	72.80	70.60	75.40	67.00	70.60
1996	915	8448	7302.13	96.20	93.80	76.50	90.80	71.90
1997	915	6711	5548.30	76.60	72.50	76.30	69.20	71.70
1998	915	7075	5503.66	80.80	71.00	76.00	68.70	71.60
1999	915	4016	3426.65	45.80	44.50	74.40	42.80	70.10
2000	915	7842	6644.86	89.30	87.20	75.00	82.70	70.70
2001	915	7261	6053.29	82.90	82.00	75.30	75.50	70.90
2002	915	7778	6384.56	88.80	86.70	75.80	79.60	71.30
2003	915	7029	5670.06	80.20	73.00	75.70	70.70	71.30
2004	915	8049	6832.46	91.60	89.00	76.30	85.00	71.90
2005	915	7007	5830.97	80.00	74.00	76.20	72.70	71.90
2006	915	7989	6466.79	91.20	87.40	76.60	80.70	72.20
2007	915	7496	6344.72	85.60	82.60	76.80	79.20	72.50
2008	915	7950	6808.19	90.50	87.90	77.20	84.70	72.90
2009	915	5435	4655.39	62.00	59.20	76.60	58.10	72.40
2010	915	7755	6688.43	88.50	86.60	76.90	83.40	72.80
2011	915	6483	5580.09	74.00	76.40	76.90	69.60	72.70
2012	915	7345	6339.05	83.60	80.60	77.00	78.90	72.90
2013	915	6741	5868.42	77.00	74.70	77.00	73.20	72.90
2014	915	7683	6743.76	87.70	85.70	77.20	84.10	73.20
2015	915	6557	5751.37	74.80	73.10	77.10	71.80	73.20
2016	915	5400	4576.92	61.50	58.80	76.60	57.00	72.70
2017	915	4975	4029.83	56.80	53.30	76.00	50.30	72.10
2018	915	6477	5586.73	73.90	70.80	75.80	69.70	72.00
2019	915	3231	2843.84	36.90	35.70	74.80	35.50	71.10
2020	915	7846	6655.75	89.30	86.10	75.10	82.80	71.40
2021	915	7270	6052.10	83.00	78.50	75.20	75.50	71.50
2022	915	7555	6479.64	86.20	82.40	75.40	80.80	71.70
2023	915	6633	5453.03	75.70	73.10	75.30	68.00	71.60