Kansas Nuclear Profile 2010 Kansas profile
| Primary energy source | Summer capacity (mw) |
Share of State total (percent) |
Net generation (thousand mwh) |
Share of State total (percent) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear | 1,160 | 9.2 | 9,556 | 19.9 |
| Coal | 5,179 | 41.3 | 32,505 | 67.8 |
| Hydro and Pumped Storage | 3 | * | 13 | * |
| Natural Gas | 4,573 | 36.5 | 2,287 | 4.8 |
| Other Renewable1 | 1,079 | 8.6 | 3,459 | 7.2 |
| Petroleum | 550 | 4.4 | 103 | 0.2 |
| Total | 12,543 | 100.0 | 47,924 | 100 |
| 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 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: Kansas Gas & Electric Company
Location and Service Territory: Located four miles northeast of Burlington in Coffey County, Kansas, the Wolf Creek plant site occupies 9,818 acres of the total 11,800 acres controlled by the owner.
Construction Cost: $5.771 billion (2007 USD)2
Reactor Descriptions: Wolf Creek is a Westinghouse four-loop pressurized water reactor and holds 193 fuel assemblies.
Cooling System: Cooling water is drawn from Wolf Creek Cooling Lake, now known as Coffey County Lake.
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.