Joseph M Farley nuclear power plant

Joseph M Farley nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Joseph M Farley nuclear power plant is the 29th largest of 54 operating nuclear sites in the United States, holding 2% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 101st of 172 worldwide.

Its operating units started up between 1977 and 1981; the median unit is 47.0 years old, older than the median of 45.0 in the United States.

The 2 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 6.9 to 10.6 years (median 8.8) from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 1980s is 7.3 years.

The nearest other tracked nuclear sites are Edwin I Hatch nuclear power plant (274 km).

2 operating units are rated differently now from their design net capacities: Unit 1 +5.4% and Unit 2 +6.5%.

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.