Tricastin 4

Operable

Details

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

Timeline

Construction Start	Thursday, 1 May 1975
First Criticality	Sunday, 31 May 1981
First Grid Connection	Friday, 12 June 1981
Commercial Operation	Sunday, 1 November 1981

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 (%)
1981	920	3883	2480.00	99.90	97.20	97.20	95.30	95.30
1982	915	6311	5470.50	72.00	69.80	73.80	68.20	72.10
1983	915	7386	6170.00	84.30	80.70	77.00	77.00	74.40
1984	915	7587	5446.00	86.40	87.10	80.20	67.80	72.30
1985	915	7816	6161.70	89.20	84.80	81.30	76.90	73.40
1986	915	7568	5873.90	86.40	81.80	81.40	73.30	73.40
1987	915	7257	5725.70	82.80	80.10	81.20	71.40	73.00
1988	915	4772	3770.00	54.30	66.20	79.10	46.90	69.40
1989	915	7335	5729.11	83.70	79.80	79.20	71.50	69.60
1990	915	7329	5201.58	83.70	77.40	79.00	64.90	69.10
1991	915	6838	5742.81	78.10	74.60	78.60	71.60	69.40
1992	915	7968	6459.26	90.70	86.70	79.30	80.40	70.40
1993	915	6842	5302.81	78.10	70.90	78.60	66.20	70.00
1994	915	7049	5952.97	80.50	77.80	78.50	74.30	70.30
1995	915	7562	6208.92	86.30	82.00	78.80	77.50	70.80
1996	915	7774	6700.35	88.50	86.60	79.30	83.40	71.70
1997	915	7595	6488.77	86.70	84.80	79.60	81.00	72.20
1998	915	7138	5912.98	81.50	76.20	79.40	73.80	72.30
1999	915	7158	5887.87	81.70	78.00	79.40	73.50	72.40
2000	915	6873	5780.25	78.20	75.80	79.20	71.90	72.40
2001	915	7138	6036.95	81.50	81.20	79.30	75.30	72.50
2002	915	7168	6260.60	81.80	81.90	79.40	78.10	72.80
2003	915	7399	6387.89	84.50	79.90	79.40	79.70	73.10
2004	915	5359	4724.06	61.00	58.80	78.50	58.80	72.50
2005	915	7728	6501.37	88.20	83.60	78.70	81.10	72.80
2006	915	7412	6410.44	84.60	83.00	78.90	80.00	73.10
2007	915	8096	7046.97	92.40	90.40	79.30	87.90	73.70
2008	915	6867	6016.61	78.20	76.40	79.20	74.90	73.70
2009	915	7630	6536.71	87.10	84.80	79.40	81.60	74.00
2010	915	7275	6263.83	83.00	80.00	79.40	78.20	74.10
2011	915	7589	6477.78	86.60	84.30	79.60	80.80	74.40
2012	915	7062	5937.33	80.40	78.00	79.60	73.90	74.40
2013	915	7607	6556.13	86.80	84.20	79.70	81.80	74.60
2014	915	5828	5218.80	66.50	65.50	79.30	65.10	74.30
2015	915	7080	6538.75	80.80	79.60	79.30	81.60	74.50
2016	915	6914	6420.53	78.70	78.10	79.20	79.90	74.70
2017	915	6267	5531.81	71.50	69.90	79.00	69.00	74.50
2018	915	6699	5916.77	76.50	74.10	78.90	73.80	74.50
2019	915	7130	6228.37	81.40	79.60	78.90	77.70	74.60
2020	915	6235	5432.69	71.00	68.40	78.60	67.60	74.40
2021	915	7554	6792.92	86.20	85.60	78.80	84.80	74.60
2022	915	6467	5407.68	73.80	69.80	78.60	67.50	74.50
2023	915	6859	5694.38	78.30	75.70	78.50	71.00	74.40