Borssele nuclear power plant

Borssele nuclear power plant in context

Borssele nuclear power plant is the only operating nuclear site in the Netherlands on record, so it holds all of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 167th of 172 operating sites worldwide by gross capacity.

Its operating unit started up in 1973; the unit is 53.0 years old.

The one unit with both construction and grid dates on record took 4.0 years from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 1970s is 5.4 years.

The nearest other tracked nuclear sites are Doel nuclear power plant (39 km), Gravelines nuclear power plant (120 km) and Tihange nuclear power plant (148 km).

The current net rating of Unit 1 differs from its design net capacity by -2.6% (495 MW at design, 482 MW now).

The tracker lists a planned retirement year, a forecast and not a decision on record, for 1 operating unit: Unit 1 (2033).

Build time by unit

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How these are worked out: ranks use gross operating capacity; ages count from the start-up year on record, as on the age page; build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the build-times page; ratings are the tracker's net and design net capacity, as on the uprates page. Distances are straight-line between exact positions, so a site with only an approximate position gets none. A unit missing a date or a rating is left out of the figure that needs it.