atw - International Journal for Nuclear Power | 04.2023

Nuclear power plants: Operating results 2022
atw Vol. 68 (2023) | Ausgabe 4 ı Juni
80
Emsland
REPORT
Operating sequence in 2022
Electrical output in %
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
January February March April May June July August September October November December
100 Apart from the 16.6 days refueling outage the Emsland nuclear
power plant had been operating uninterrupted and mainly at full
load 80 during the review period 2022. Producing a gross power
generation of 11,356,583 MWh with a capacity factor of 95.37 %
60
the power plant achieved a very good operating result.
40
Planned shutdowns
20
35 rd Refueling and 34 rd overall maintenance outage:
The annual outage was scheduled for the period 6 May to 25 May
0
2022. The outage took 18.7 days from breaker to breaker. During
the 35 rd refueling none new fuel elements were used. The following
100 major maintenance and inspection activities were carried
out:
80
• Inspection of core and reactor pressure vessel internals.
60
• Inspection of pressurizer valves.
• Pressure test on different coolers and tanks.
40
• Pressure test on residual heat exchange.
• 20Inspection of feedwater tank.
0
Unplanned shutdowns and reactor/turbine trip
None.
Power reductions above 10 % and longer than for 24 h
11 April to 6 May 2022: Stretch-out operation.
13 November 2022
to 21 January 2023: Stretch-out operation.
Delivery of fuel elements
In 2022 no fuel elements were delivered.
Waste management status
No CASTOR © cask loading was carried out during the review period
2022.
At the end of the year 47 loaded casks were stored in the local
interim storage facility owned by BGZ Gesellschaft für Zwischenlagerung
mbH.
General points
None.
Positionierung:
Bezug, links, unten
X = 20,475 Y = 95,25 B = 173,5 H = 38,2
VGB: HKS6K 30 %
atw: 100 60 0 0
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