Disparities in nuclear power plant performance in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany

Technical Report · Sat Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5818433

Hansen, K F; Winje, D K

This report presents data comparing the performance of light water reactors in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). The comparisons are made for the years 1980-1983 and include 21 Westinghouse Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs), 22 General Electric Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs) in the US; and 6 Kraftwerk Union (KWU) PWRs and 4 KWJ BWRs in the FRG. Data on capacity losses are presented in a disaggregated form for scheduled outages, forced outages, and regulatory imposed outages. Further, within the scheduled and forced outages, the data is subdivided into losses associated with the nuclear island, the balance of plant, or other causes.

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge (USA). Energy Lab.
• OSTI ID: 5818433
• Report Number(s): PB-85-142735/XAB; MIT/EL-84/018
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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