St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant

St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant
Overhead view of St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant
Country	United States
Location	Port St. Lucie, St. Lucie County, Florida
Coordinates	27°20′55″N 80°14′47″W / 27.34861°N 80.24639°W / 27.34861; -80.24639
Status	Operational
Construction began	Unit 1: July 1, 1970 Unit 2: June 2, 1977
Commission date	Unit 1: December 21, 1976 Unit 2: August 8, 1983
Construction cost	$4.614 billion (2007 USD)[1]
Owner	Florida Power & Light
Operator	Florida Power & Light
Nuclear power station
Reactor type	PWR
Reactor supplier	Combustion Engineering
Cooling source	Atlantic Ocean
Thermal capacity	2 × 3020 MWth
Power generation
Units operational	2 × 940 MW [2]
Make and model	CE 2-loop (DRYAMB)
Nameplate capacity	1,880 MW [2]
Capacity factor	95.29% (2017) 84.05% (lifetime)
Annual net output	14,153 GWh (2021)
External links
Website	St. Lucie Nuclear Plant
Commons	Related media on Commons
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St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant is a twin nuclear power station located on Hutchinson Island, near Port St. Lucie in St. Lucie County, Florida. Both units are Combustion Engineering pressurized water reactors. Florida Power & Light commissioned the station in 1976 and continues to operate the station. Minor shares of Unit 2 are owned by the Florida Municipal Power Agency (8.81%) and the Orlando Utilities Commission (6.08%).^{[citation needed]}

The plant contains two nuclear reactors in separate containment buildings. However, the plant does not have the classic hyperboloid cooling towers found at many inland reactor sites; instead, it uses nearby ocean water for coolant of the secondary system.

In 2003 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) extended the operating licenses of the St. Lucie units by twenty years, to March 1, 2036 for Unit 1 and April 6, 2043 for Unit 2.