Wolf Creek nuclear power plant

Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Wolf Creek nuclear power plant is the 37th largest of 54 operating nuclear sites in the United States, holding 1% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 125th of 172 worldwide.

Its operating unit started up in 1985; the unit is 41.0 years old, younger than the median of 45.0 in the United States.

The one unit with both construction and grid dates on record took 8.0 years 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 Cooper nuclear power plant (236 km).

The current net rating of the unit differs from its design net capacity by +2.6% (1,170 MW at design, 1,200 MW now).

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.