With planned uprate, Grand Gulf would be biggest US nuclear unit

摘要

Grand Gulf’s generating capacity would increase to 1,443nMW — making it the largest nuclear unit in the US — ifnoperator Entergy receives approval from NRC for an upratenapplication it plans to submit in July 2010.nAccording to Platts data, the uprate would add about 123nMW and also make Grand Gulf the 10th largest power reactornin the world. The largest nuclear unit is Electricite de France’snCivaux-1 at 1,561 MW and the biggest units in the US arenSouth Texas-1 and -2 at 1,413 MW, just ahead of the threenPalo Verde units at 1,412 MW each, according to the data.