Mihama 2

Permanent Shutdown

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	M (2-loop)
Owner	Kansai Electric Power Co.
Operator	Kansai Electric Power Co.

Timeline

Construction Start	Wednesday, 29 May 1968
First Criticality	Monday, 10 April 1972
First Grid Connection	Friday, 21 April 1972
Commercial Operation	Tuesday, 25 July 1972
Permanent Shutdown	Monday, 27 April 2015

Specifications

Capacity Net	470 MWe
Capacity Gross	500 MWe
Thermal Capacity	1456 MWt
Design Net Capacity	470 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 (%)
1972	500	4528	1598.70	75.70	69.40	69.40	60.80	60.80
1973	470	5569	2509.30	63.60	63.30	65.20	61.00	60.90
1974	470	6766	3122.80	77.20	77.00	70.00	75.80	67.00
1975	470	818	260.30	9.30	6.40	51.60	6.30	49.40
1976	470	7011	2828.20	79.80	68.70	55.40	68.50	53.70
1977	470	3679	1648.00	42.00	40.00	52.60	40.00	51.20
1978	470	5852	2648.70	66.80	64.50	54.40	64.30	53.20
1979	470	1944	867.10	22.20	21.10	50.00	21.10	48.90
1980	470	6622	3032.70	75.40	73.30	52.70	73.50	51.80
1981	470	5982	2762.90	68.30	66.90	54.20	67.10	53.40
1982	470	4958	2238.90	56.60	54.20	54.20	54.40	53.50
1983	470	3262	1433.80	37.20	34.70	52.50	34.80	51.90
1984	470	8458	3937.29	96.30	96.30	56.00	95.40	55.40
1985	470	6219	2898.32	71.00	70.20	57.10	70.40	56.50
1986	470	7100	3301.50	81.00	80.00	58.70	80.20	58.20
1987	470	5927	2766.17	67.70	67.70	59.30	67.20	58.70
1988	470	6850	3223.10	78.00	77.80	60.40	78.10	59.90
1989	470	7112	3325.25	81.20	81.20	61.60	80.80	61.10
1990	470	6594	3077.09	75.30	72.70	62.20	74.70	61.80
1991	470	950	447.12	10.80	10.00	59.50	10.90	59.20
1992	470	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	56.60	0.00	56.30
1993	470	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	54.00	0.00	53.70
1994	470	2522	1186.32	28.80	29.90	52.90	28.80	52.60
1995	470	7138	3335.02	81.50	80.50	54.00	81.00	53.80
1996	470	8024	3762.38	91.40	90.50	55.60	91.10	55.30
1997	470	6417	3005.99	73.20	72.60	56.20	73.00	56.00
1998	470	7228	3396.28	82.50	82.00	57.20	82.50	57.00
1999	470	5821	2746.41	66.40	66.30	57.50	66.70	57.40
2000	470	8137	3839.71	92.60	92.50	58.80	93.00	58.60
2001	470	6177	2911.33	70.50	70.30	59.20	70.70	59.00
2002	470	7648	3611.26	87.30	87.20	60.10	87.70	60.00
2003	470	7182	3400.24	82.00	81.50	60.80	82.60	60.70
2004	470	6170	2942.31	70.20	70.20	61.00	71.30	61.00
2005	470	7470	3525.35	85.30	84.80	61.80	85.60	61.80
2006	470	6671	3110.89	76.20	75.00	62.10	75.60	62.20
2007	470	4811	2294.21	54.90	54.80	61.90	55.70	62.00
2008	470	3678	1713.14	41.90	41.60	61.40	41.50	61.40
2009	470	6688	3161.56	76.40	75.80	61.80	76.80	61.80
2010	470	5099	2356.31	58.20	56.30	61.60	57.20	61.70
2011	470	8187	3864.00	93.50	92.80	62.40	93.80	62.50
2012	470	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	60.90	0.00	61.00
2013	470	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	59.40	0.00	59.50
2014	470	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	58.00	0.00	58.10
2015	470	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	57.60	0.00	57.70