Perry nuclear power plant

Perry nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Perry nuclear power plant is the 35th largest of 54 operating nuclear sites in the United States, holding 1% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 122nd of 172 worldwide.

Its operating unit started up in 1987; the unit is 39.0 years old, younger than the median of 45.0 in the United States.

The one unit with both construction and grid dates on record took 12.2 years from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 1980s is 7.3 years.

The nearest other tracked nuclear sites are Beaver Valley nuclear power plant (144 km), Davis Besse nuclear power plant (163 km) and Fermi nuclear power plant (176 km).

The current net rating of Unit 1 differs from its design net capacity by +2.9% (1,205 MW at design, 1,240 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.