Salem 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurised Water Reactor (or PWR)
Model	W (4-loop) DRYAMB
Owner	PSEG Power Inc
Operator	PSEG Nuclear LLC

Timeline

Construction Start	Wednesday, 25 September 1968
First Criticality	Saturday, 11 December 1976
First Grid Connection	Saturday, 25 December 1976
Commercial Operation	Thursday, 30 June 1977

Specifications

Capacity Net	1169 MWe
Capacity Gross	1254 MWe
Thermal Capacity	3459 MWt
Design Net Capacity	1090 MWe

Operational History

Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Energy Availability Factor (%)

Total Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Reactor History

Year	Reference Unit Power (MWe)	Annual Time Online (Hours)	Electricity Supplied (GWh)	Operation Factor (%)	Energy Availability Annual (%)	Energy Availability Cumulative (%)	Load Factor Annual (%)	Load Factor Cumulative (%)
1976	1090	0	3.20	-	-	-	-	-
1977	1079	2432	3398.20	54.50	42.80	42.80	42.80	42.80
1978	1079	4862	4537.00	55.50	48.00	46.20	48.00	46.20
1979	1079	2231	2084.30	25.50	22.00	36.60	22.00	36.60
1980	1079	6075	5689.80	69.20	69.50	46.00	60.00	43.30
1981	1079	6839	6191.30	78.10	78.50	53.20	65.50	48.20
1982	1079	4192	4107.40	47.80	47.00	52.10	43.50	47.40
1983	1079	5127	5408.80	58.50	57.60	52.90	57.20	48.90
1984	1079	2378	2160.15	27.10	27.10	49.50	22.80	45.40
1985	1079	8345	9007.51	95.30	95.20	54.80	95.30	51.20
1986	1106	6921	7084.01	79.00	78.60	57.30	74.60	53.70
1987	1106	6362	6216.61	72.60	72.60	58.80	64.20	54.70
1988	1106	6841	7418.56	77.90	77.90	60.50	76.40	56.70
1989	1106	6059	6213.35	69.20	69.20	61.20	64.10	57.30
1990	1106	5868	5999.21	67.00	67.00	61.70	61.90	57.60
1991	1106	6479	6810.28	74.00	74.00	62.50	70.30	58.50
1992	1106	5090	5307.84	58.00	58.00	62.20	54.60	58.20
1993	1106	5746	5870.60	65.60	65.60	62.40	60.60	58.40
1994	1106	5865	5779.31	67.00	67.00	62.70	59.60	58.50
1995	1106	2632	2554.43	30.00	30.10	60.90	26.40	56.70
1996	1106	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	57.80	0.00	53.80
1997	1106	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	54.90	0.00	51.10
1998	1106	6199	6475.62	70.80	70.80	55.60	66.80	51.80
1999	1106	7663	8009.17	87.50	87.50	57.10	82.70	53.20
2000	1106	8328	8952.64	94.80	94.80	58.70	92.20	54.90
2001	1096	7116	7709.42	81.20	80.90	59.60	80.80	56.00
2002	1096	7855	8620.57	89.70	89.50	60.80	89.80	57.30
2003	1096	8401	9096.68	95.90	95.80	62.10	94.80	58.70
2004	1159	6766	7452.71	77.00	77.60	62.70	75.20	59.30
2005	1111	8105	9440.58	92.50	92.50	63.70	97.00	60.70
2006	1174	8725	10228.09	99.60	99.60	65.00	99.40	62.10
2007	1174	8013	9158.51	91.50	91.50	66.00	89.00	63.00
2008	1174	8053	9333.79	91.70	91.70	66.80	90.50	63.90
2009	1174	8735	10221.76	99.70	99.70	67.90	99.40	65.10
2010	1174	7653	8776.60	87.40	87.40	68.50	85.30	65.70
2011	1174	7847	8835.77	89.60	89.60	69.20	85.90	66.40
2012	1168	8472	9896.78	96.40	96.50	70.00	96.50	67.20
2013	1168	7692	9124.16	87.80	87.80	70.50	89.20	67.90
2014	1168	7657	8891.48	87.40	87.40	71.00	86.90	68.40
2015	1169	8593	9778.02	98.10	98.10	71.70	95.50	69.10
2016	1169	6214	7002.31	70.70	70.70	71.70	68.20	69.10
2017	1169	7964	9275.70	90.90	90.90	72.20	90.60	69.70
2018	1169	8760	10204.37	100.00	100.00	72.90	99.60	70.40
2019	1169	7153	7990.30	81.70	81.70	73.10	78.00	70.60
2020	1169	6225	7142.17	70.90	70.90	73.00	69.60	70.60
2021	1169	8760	10176.69	100.00	100.00	73.70	99.40	71.30
2022	1169	7806	9112.71	89.10	89.10	74.00	89.00	71.70