Davis Besse nuclear power plant

Davis Besse nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Davis Besse nuclear power plant is the 49th largest of 54 operating nuclear sites in the United States, holding 1% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 152nd of 172 worldwide.

Its operating unit started up in 1978; the unit is 48.0 years old, older than the median of 45.0 in the United States.

The one unit with both construction and grid dates on record took 7.0 years from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 1970s is 5.4 years.

The nearest other tracked nuclear sites are Fermi nuclear power plant (43 km), Perry nuclear power plant (163 km) and Beaver Valley nuclear power plant (247 km).

The current net rating of Unit 1 differs from its design net capacity by -1.3% (906 MW at design, 894 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.