ST. LUCIE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

'St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant' is a twin nuclear power station located on Hutchinson Island, near Ft. Pierce, Florida in St. Lucie County. Both units are Combustion Engineering pressurized water reactors. Florida Power & Light commissioned the station in 1976 and continues to own and operate the station.
The plant contains two nuclear reactor containment buildings. However, the plant does not have the classic hyperboloid cooling towers found at many reactor sites; instead, it uses nearby ocean water for secondary coolant.
In 2003 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission extended the operating licenses of the St. Lucie units by twenty years, to March 1, 2036 for unit 1 and April 6, 2043 for unit 2 [1].

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★ FPL's About St. Lucie

★ DoE Page