Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station
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 Location of Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station in Alabama
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| Country | United States |
| Location | Hollywood, Alabama |
| Coordinates | 34°42′31″N 85°55′45″W / 34.70861°N 85.92917°WCoordinates: 34°42′31″N 85°55′45″W / 34.70861°N 85.92917°W |
| Status | Suspended for 29 years, 5 months |
| Construction began | 1975 |
| Construction cost | US$6 billion (Units 1 & 2) |
| Owner(s) | Nuclear Development LLC |
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| Reactor type | PWR |
| Reactor supplier | Babcock & Wilcox |
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| Units under const. | 2 × 1,256 MW |
| Units cancelled | 2 × 1,100 MW |
The Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station (shortly BLN) was a partially constructed nuclear power plant located in Hollywood, Alabama. A total of four nuclear reactors (two originally; and two of new designs), had been proposed for the site over a 40-year period, with over $4 billion having been spent (constructing the preliminary plant infrastructure and ordering/delivering/installing major equipment items. But no nuclear reactor nor electric generating plant was ever nearly completed; and no nuclear fuel was delivered or loaded. Meaningful construction progress at the site site was halted in 1988. Starting after its termination in 2005, TVA implemented an investment recovery effort to recoup some of the costs associated with Bellefonte. As part of the investment recovery effort, all or parts of some major plant components, including steam generators, feedwater heaters, large pumps and motors, demineralized water and condensate storage tanks, main condenser tubes, and some piping and valves were removed and sold. Additionally, some usable components were transferred from Bellefonte to other TVA facilities as spares.
The Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station site is owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority and is located in Hollywood, Alabama. The two partially built 1,256 megawatt (MWe) pressurized water reactors on the site were made by Babcock & Wilcox and are called a 205 design due to the number of fuel assemblies in the core. These units are of the same design as WNP-1 which is also unfinished, and as the Mülheim-Kärlich A reactor in Germany that operated for three years and proved the design.
Reactor Unit 1 construction was estimated at 88% complete (mechanical - nuclear island) and Unit 2 construction was estimated 58% complete (mechanical - nuclear island) when TVA's Board suspended the project; and the plants' construction in 1988, after a combined $6 billion investment. Subsequent asset recovery activities (i.e., the removal (without ordering or planning for replacement), of useable equipment and systems to other TVA power plant sites), along with more recent (2000s) inspections of the operable state of remaining equipment, resulted in BLN 1&2 now being considered approximately 55 percent and 35 percent complete (mechanical - nuclear island only) respectively.
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