US Nuclear Plants - Joseph M. Farley

U.S. Nuclear Plants

Farley (Joseph M. Farley)
Alabama

Unit 1 Nuclear system supplied by Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Capacity Net MW(e)	Generation in 2003 Megawatthours	Capacity Factor in 2003	Type	On-line Date	License Expiration Date
833	6,602,638	90.2%	PWR	June 25, 1977	June 25, 2017
Unit 2 Nuclear system supplied by Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Capacity Net MW(e)	Generation in 2003 Megawatthours	Capacity Factor in 2003	Type	On-line Date	License Expiration Date
842	7,379,360	99.8%	PWR	March 31, 1981	March 31, 2021

PWR= Pressurized Light Water Reactor

Description: The Joseph M. Farley twin nuclear power station is located near Dothan, Alabama. Its 1,850-acre site in Houston County is largely wooded and agricultural.

Ownership: Southern Nuclear Operation Company is the plant operator. Alabama Power Company is the owner (100 percent) and the plant itself is named after the company's first president and former CEO of the Southern Nuclear Operating Company.

Sources: Capacity, for purposes of this report, is the net summer capability as reported in Energy Information Administration (EIA) survey form 860, "Annual Electric Generator Report." Capacity Factor is a calculation in which the maximum possible generation (based on net summer capability) is divided into the actual generation than multiplied by 100 to get a percentage. Generation is the electricity output reported by plant owners on EIA survey form 906. Type of Unit: All U.S. commercial reactors currently in operation are one of two types: BWR (boiling water reactor) or PWR (pressurized light water reactor). The type is identified in EIA's Nuclear Power Generation and Fuel Cycle Report. Both the On-line Date and the License Expiration Date are reported annually in Information Digest by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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