Brunsbuettel

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Boiling Water Reactor (or BWR)
Model	BWR-69
Owner	Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy Gmbh (66.6%) E.On Kernkraft Gmbh (33.3%)
Operator	Kernkraftwerk Brunsbüttel Gmbh & Co. Ohg

Timeline

Construction Start	Wednesday, 15 April 1970
First Criticality	Wednesday, 23 June 1976
First Grid Connection	Tuesday, 13 July 1976
Commercial Operation	Wednesday, 9 February 1977
Permanent Shutdown	Saturday, 6 August 2011

Specifications

Capacity Net	771 MWe
Capacity Gross	806 MWe
Thermal Capacity	2292 MWt
Design Net Capacity	770 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 (%)
1976	770	2112	1032.20	-	-	-	-	-
1977	770	4547	3313.80	50.40	47.40	47.40	47.40	47.40
1978	770	3405	2333.50	38.90	34.50	40.70	34.60	40.70
1979	770	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	26.70	0.00	26.80
1980	770	1354	714.90	15.40	11.30	22.80	10.60	22.60
1981	770	7432	4462.40	84.80	66.40	31.60	66.20	31.50
1982	770	5007	3439.20	57.20	51.10	34.90	51.00	34.80
1983	770	3241	2416.00	37.00	34.20	34.80	35.80	34.90
1984	770	7549	5334.00	85.90	78.90	40.40	78.90	40.50
1985	770	7661	5625.31	87.40	83.10	45.20	83.40	45.30
1986	771	7802	5630.91	89.10	86.10	49.30	83.40	49.10
1987	771	7837	5233.83	89.50	85.90	52.70	77.50	51.70
1988	771	7800	5085.31	88.80	85.40	55.40	75.10	53.70
1989	771	6730	4097.17	76.80	71.60	56.70	60.70	54.20
1990	771	8527	4780.32	97.30	93.80	59.40	70.80	55.40
1991	771	6317	3819.30	72.10	61.20	59.50	56.60	55.50
1992	771	5425	3487.35	61.80	57.40	59.40	51.50	55.20
1993	771	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	55.80	0.00	52.00
1994	771	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	52.70	0.00	49.10
1995	771	4750	3001.03	54.20	51.30	52.60	44.40	48.80
1996	771	7255	4696.35	82.60	74.70	53.80	69.30	49.90
1997	771	8760	5102.94	100.00	97.40	55.80	75.60	51.10
1998	771	5712	3993.89	65.20	64.70	56.20	59.10	51.50
1999	771	8290	6219.82	94.60	93.60	57.90	92.10	53.20
2000	771	8295	5784.80	94.40	93.80	59.40	85.40	54.60
2001	771	8202	5764.31	93.60	86.80	60.50	85.40	55.80
2002	771	1167	859.99	13.30	13.10	58.70	12.70	54.20
2003	771	6688	4905.81	76.40	76.30	59.30	72.60	54.80
2004	771	6504	4873.18	74.00	73.30	59.80	72.00	55.50
2005	771	7989	6027.24	91.20	89.00	60.80	89.20	56.60
2006	771	7958	5967.39	90.80	88.50	61.80	88.40	57.70
2007	771	3362	2487.87	38.40	38.20	61.00	36.80	57.00
2008	771	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	59.10	0.00	55.20
2009	771	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	57.30	0.00	53.50
2010	771	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	55.60	0.00	52.00
2011	771	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	54.70	0.00	51.10