St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant | |
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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 |
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(s) | Florida Power & Light |
Operator(s) | 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 |
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.