Massachusetts Nuclear Profile 2010 Massachusetts profile
| Primary energy source | Summer capacity (mw) |
Share of State total (percent) |
Net generation (thousand mwh) |
Share of State total (percent) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear | 685 | 5.0 | 5,918 | 13.8 |
| Coal | 1,669 | 12.2 | 8,306 | 19.4 |
| Hydro and Pumped Storage | 1,942 | 14.2 | 659 | 1.5 |
| Natural Gas | 6,063 | 44.3 | 25,582 | 59.8 |
| Other 1 | 3 | * | 771 | 1.8 |
| Other Renewable1 | 304 | 2.2 | 1,274 | 3.0 |
| Petroleum | 3,031 | 22.1 | 296 | 0.7 |
| Total | 13,697 | 100.0 | 42,805 | 100.0 |
| 1Municipal Solid Waste net generation is allocated according to the biogenic and non-biogenic components of the fuel; however, all Municipal Solid Waste summer capacity is classified as Renewable. * = Absolute percentage less than 0.05. Notes: Totals may not equal sum of components due to independent rounding. Other: Blast furnace gas, propane gas, other manufactured and waste gases derived from fossil fuels, non-biogenic municipal solid waste, batteries, chemicals, hydrogen, pitch, purchased steam, sulfur, tire-derived fuel, and miscellaneous technologies. Other Renewable: Wood, black liquor, other wood waste, biogenic municipal solid waste, landfill gas, sludge waste, agriculture byproducts, other biomass, geothermal, solar thermal, photovoltaic energy, and wind. Sources: Form EIA-860, "Annual Electric Generator Report," and Form EIA-923, "Power Plant Operations Report." |
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Plants in State
Operator: Entergy Nuclear Generation Company
Location and Service Territory: Pilgrim is located on a 1,600-acre site in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Construction Cost: $462.25 million (2007 USD)2
Reactor Descriptions: Pilgrim has a single General Electric Type 3 boiling water reactor that uses low-enriched uranium dioxide with maximum enrichments of 4.6 percent by weight uranium 235 and fuel burnup levels of 48,000 megawatt-days per metric ton uranium.
Cooling System: Pilgrim reactor uses a once-through cooling system that draws from the Atlantic Ocean.
2Nuclear Power Plant Construction Activity, DOE/EIA-0473(86), Energy Information Administration, 1986, pp 16-17, Table 5. Adjusted to 2007 Dollars using Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index.