Nine Mile Point
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Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station
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 Location of Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station in New York
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| Country | United States |
| Location | Scriba, Oswego County, near Oswego, New York |
| Coordinates | 43°31′15″N 76°24′25″W / 43.52083°N 76.40694°WCoordinates: 43°31′15″N 76°24′25″W / 43.52083°N 76.40694°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Commission date | Unit 1: December 1, 1969 Unit 2: March 3, 1988 |
| Owner(s) | Unit 1: Exelon Nuclear (50.01%), Électricité de France (49.99%) Unit 2: Exelon Nuclear (41.01%), Électricité de France (40.99%), Long Island Power Authority (18%) |
| Operator(s) | Exelon Nuclear |
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| Reactor type | Unit 1: BWR-2 Unit 2: BWR-5 |
| Reactor supplier | General Electric |
| Cooling source | Lake Ontario |
| Cooling towers | 1 |
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| Nameplate capacity | Unit 1: 621 MW Unit 2: 1,140 MW |
| Annual output | Unit 1: 4,762 GWh Unit 2: 9,201 GWh |
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Website http://www.exeloncorp.com/locations/power-plants/nine-mile-point |
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Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station is a nuclear power plant with two nuclear reactors located in the town of Scriba, approximately five miles northeast of Oswego, New York, on the shore of Lake Ontario. The 900-acre (360 ha) site is also occupied by the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant.
In April 2011, Exelon of Chicago announced its intention to purchase Constellation Energy, the owner and operator of Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station. The acquisition was approved by FERC and the companies officially combined on March 12, 2012 with Constellation Energy taking the Exelon name. Exelon shares ownership of Unit 1 with Électricité de France (49.99%) and Unit 2 with Électricité de France (40.99%), and Long Island Power Authority (18%). Exelon is the sole operator of both Units 1 & 2. Both units are boiling water reactors (BWRs).
Both units are General Electric boiling water reactors (BWR). Unit 1, a BWR-2 (Generation 2), went online in 1969 and has a rated capacity of 609 megawatts (817,000 hp). It is one of the two oldest nuclear reactors still in service in the United States; New Jersey's Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station is the other. Unit 2, a BWR-5, has been in operation since 1988 and has a rated capacity of 1,148 MW. Construction of both units, along with neighboring Fitzpatrick, was commissioned by Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation. Fitzpatrick was sold immediately upon completion, while Niagara Mohawk retained its share of the Nine Mile Point units until 2001, when it sold them to Constellation.
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