PEACH BOTTOM ATOMIC POWER STATION UNIT 1

Peach Bottom 1 is located 19 Miles south of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, along with operating Peach Bottom units 2 and 3. This high temperature gas cooled reactor was shut down in 1974, and is currently in SAFSTOR.

PEACH BOTTOM 2


Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Utility: Philadelphia Electric Company/Public Service Electric and Gas Company
Reactor Supplier: General Electric Company
Capacity: 1093 net MWe
Reactor Type: Boiling water reactor
Date of Operation: December 1973
License Expiration date: 08/08/2013
Electricity Produced in 1997: 9.6 billion kWh
1997 Average Capacity Factor: 100.0%

The Peach Bottom site was a pioneer in U.S. nuclear involvement. Philadelphia Electric ordered its first reactor in 1958. Peach Bottom 1 was an experimental gas-cooled reactor. Peach Bottom 2 and 3 came on-line in 1973 and 1974, respectively.

PEACH BOTTOM 3


Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Utility: Philadelphia Electric Company/Public Service Electric and Gas Company
Reactor Supplier: General Electric Company
Capacity: 1093 net MWe
Reactor Type: Boiling water reactor
Date of Operation: July 1974
License Expiration date: 07/02/2014
Electricity Produced in 1997: 7.6 billion kWh
1997 Average Capacity Factor: 79.0%

The Peach Bottom site was a pioneer in U.S. nuclear involvement. Philadelphia Electric ordered its first reactor in 1958. Peach Bottom 1 was an experimental gas-cooled reactor. Peach Bottom 2 and 3 came on-line in 1973 and 1974, respectively.