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James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant

Coordinates: 43°31.4′N 76°23.9′W / 43.5233°N 76.3983°W / 43.5233; -76.3983
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James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant
James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant
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CountryUnited States
LocationScriba, Oswego County, near Oswego, New York
Coordinates43°31.4′N 76°23.9′W / 43.5233°N 76.3983°W / 43.5233; -76.3983
StatusOperational
Construction beganSeptember 1, 1968 (1968-09-01)
Commission dateJuly 28, 1975
Construction cost$1.065 billion (2007 USD)[1]
OwnerConstellation Energy
OperatorConstellation Energy
Nuclear power station
Reactor typeBWR
Reactor supplierGeneral Electric
Cooling sourceLake Ontario
Thermal capacity1 × 2536 MWth
Power generation
Units operational1 × 813 MW
Make and modelBWR-4 (Mark 1)
Nameplate capacity813 MW
Capacity factor86.82% (2017)
77.3% (lifetime)
Annual net output6183 GWh (2017)
External links
WebsiteJames A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant
CommonsRelated media on Commons
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The James A. FitzPatrick (JAF) Nuclear Power Plant is located in the Town of Scriba, near Oswego, New York, on the southeast shore of Lake Ontario. The nuclear power plant has one General Electric boiling water reactor. The 900-acre (360 ha) site is also the location of two other units at the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station.

The power plant was originally built by Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation. FitzPatrick and half of the Nine Mile Point site were transferred to the Power Authority of the State of New York (PASNY), now called the New York Power Authority (NYPA). It was named after Power Authority Chairman James A. FitzPatrick, and the NYPA operated the plant until November 2000 when it was sold to Entergy Corporation.[2] On November 2, 2015, Entergy announced its plans to shut down FitzPatrick at the time of its next fuel change in 2016[3] but instead elected to sell the plant to Exelon Generation for $110 million.[4]

On April 1, 2017, Exelon's generation division, Constellation Energy assumed ownership and continues to operate the plant.

Surrounding population

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway zone with a radius of 10 miles (16 km), concerned primarily with exposure to, and inhalation of, airborne radioactive contamination, and an ingestion pathway zone of about 50 miles (80 km), concerned primarily with ingestion of food and liquid contaminated by radioactivity.[5]

The 2010 U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of FitzPatrick was 35,136, an increase of 17.0 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data for msnbc.com. The 2010 U.S. population within 50 miles (80 km) was 909,798, an increase of 3.2 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include Syracuse (36 miles to city center). Canadian population is not included in these figures, such as Kingston, Ontario, 49 miles to the city center.[6]

Seismic risk

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to the reactor at FitzPatrick was 1 in 163,934, according to an NRC study published in August 2010.[7][8]

Announced closure

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On November 2, 2015, Entergy Corporation announced that it intended to close the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant because it is becoming too costly to operate.[3][9] The nuclear industry's profits had been squeezed out by cheaper energy from natural gas plants. “Given the financial challenges our merchant power plants face from sustained wholesale power price declines and other unfavorable market conditions, we have been assessing each asset,” Chief Executive Officer Leo Denault said in the statement. “Market conditions require us to also close the FitzPatrick nuclear plant.”[10]

In 2016, Cuomo directed the Public Service Commission to consider ratepayer-financed subsidies similar to those for renewable sources to keep carbon free nuclear power stations profitable in the competition against carbon based natural gas.[11][12]

In August 2016, Exelon agreed to buy the plant pending regulatory approval and formally acquired ownership and operation on March 31, 2017.

Electricity Production

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Generation (MWh) of James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant[13]
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual (Total)
2001 597,968 597,968 509,185 595,092 619,284 599,220 612,745 602,328 568,545 593,355 599,600 625,670 7,120,960
2002 621,431 562,360 609,315 601,263 610,755 525,900 606,748 604,562 577,833 76,459 559,592 629,316 6,585,534
2003 607,100 477,671 440,371 609,042 628,627 606,649 620,585 533,662 581,680 628,339 602,262 629,917 6,565,905
2004 626,620 511,118 599,961 601,822 621,004 596,663 593,341 523,177 410,343 122,108 612,230 637,537 6,055,924
2005 623,299 575,732 637,362 615,503 611,251 605,551 341,740 615,909 545,209 632,303 613,884 633,488 7,045,231
2006 623,636 573,222 629,548 583,621 627,680 609,240 619,587 616,671 585,962 140,831 508,101 640,170 6,758,269
2007 639,284 542,849 637,738 617,189 584,379 615,692 630,361 561,609 542,769 477,499 430,705 638,276 6,918,350
2008 611,178 596,709 635,678 523,100 599,707 604,352 584,963 606,886 250,801 422,111 618,103 637,317 6,290,905
2009 623,093 571,825 636,975 591,987 635,258 612,763 628,418 621,154 604,523 634,498 616,268 621,312 7,397,072
2010 632,313 540,686 627,170 564,123 618,763 594,667 603,544 551,272 200,852 261,832 536,709 629,552 6,361,483
2011 616,045 569,714 609,653 602,196 593,796 601,251 616,003 615,121 599,542 628,561 606,268 585,846 7,244,996
2012 581,329 587,033 624,134 568,936 624,685 573,942 598,563 596,352 265,314 217,963 214,439 617,836 6,070,526
2013 629,859 550,803 476,716 611,141 591,758 455,245 605,452 591,505 521,294 612,648 586,535 606,866 6,839,822
2014 607,587 522,494 576,116 569,537 590,926 451,497 513,760 364,577 0 389,025 614,072 629,103 5,828,694
2015 629,345 573,014 633,663 611,799 633,889 611,642 615,205 610,411 591,840 627,095 611,874 632,460 7,381,237
2016 460,731 579,127 629,672 602,817 629,112 459,963 392,503 474,401 448,474 459,076 387,335 350,915 5,273,126
2017 133,463 48,057 616,848 548,238 601,890 601,601 611,525 580,556 594,858 626,179 577,977 633,032 6,174,224
2018 634,103 566,493 629,921 611,683 548,101 588,609 575,493 526,735 140,864 456,819 614,460 634,500 7,027,781
2019 634,323 572,376 612,362 611,980 626,571 608,087 611,954 609,104 601,328 625,999 610,765 630,257 7,354,106
2020 613,124 391,146 624,651 608,367 626,146 598,314 602,963 564,094 202,485 516,827 615,471 625,088 6,488,676
2021 635,106 573,588 629,668 614,060 632,815 604,689 622,585 615,430 618,205 626,443 609,344 634,130 7,415,063
2022 633,425 552,986 626,134 605,064 619,020 588,019 585,888 514,810 368,412 277,252 608,559 633,176 6,612,745
2023 633,624 572,516 629,408 612,198 628,822 603,351 614,162 614,427 598,617 626,139 612,650 627,155 7,072,069
2024 633,398 592,363 629,119 611,157 627,012 597,678 608,457 394,690 226,629 --

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ "EIA - State Nuclear Profiles". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Highlights of NYPA History Since 1931". New York Power Authority. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
  3. ^ a b Knauss, Tim (Nov 2, 2015). "Entergy to close FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County". syracuse.com. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  4. ^ House, Samantha (August 9, 2016). "Exelon agrees to buy FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County". syracuse.com. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  5. ^ "Emergency Planning Zones". U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. September 29, 2014. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  6. ^ "Nuclear neighbors: Population rises near US reactors". NBC News. 2011-04-14. Retrieved 2024-08-16.
  7. ^ "What are the odds? US nuke plants ranked by quake risk". NBC News. 2011-03-16. Retrieved 2024-08-16.
  8. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-25. Retrieved 2011-04-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ McGeehan, Patrick (November 2, 2015). "Entergy to Close Nuclear Plant on Lake Ontario, Angering Cuomo". The New York Times.
  10. ^ Polson, Jim (November 2, 2015). "Entergy to Close FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in New York". Bloomberg Business.
  11. ^ Yee, Vivian (July 20, 2016). "Nuclear Subsidies Are Key Part of New York's Clean-Energy Plan". The New York Times.
  12. ^ "NYSDPS-DMM: Matter Master".
  13. ^ "Electricity Data Browser". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 2024-11-04.

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