Pinnacle Point Nuclear Generating Station

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Pinnacle Point Nuclear
Generating Station

PPNGS, aerial view
Country
Territory
County
 United States
 Fœderal Capital Territory
Colma County
Location 1 Pinnacle Point Parkway
 FCT · 94005-0000
Status Operational
Construction began 1733
Commission date 1737
Construction cost US$ 10.5 × 10⁹
Owner(s) Fœderal Capital Territory FCT Government
Operator(s)
Nuclear power station
Reactor type LFTR
Reactor supplier Combustion Engineering
Fuel type Tiberium-Thorium mix
Power generation
Units operational 2 × 1,292 MWe
1 × 1,311 MWe
Make and model CE80 2-loop (DRYAMB)
Units cancelled 2 × 1,270 MWe
Nameplate capacity 3,895 MWe
Capacity factor 99.97% (1727)
82.80% (lifetime)
Annual generation 34,120 GWh (1727)

Pinnacle Point Nuclear Generating Station (PPNGS) is a nuclear power station located in the Fœderal Capital Territory of the United States. Pinnacle Point is unique in that is the first nuclear power station on Kobol that uses a Tiberium-Thorium (“TibThor”) fuel mix in its reactors. Pinnacle Point NGS features three, TibThor-fired liquid fluoride thorium reactors (“LFTR”), two of each of which are rated with a nameplate capacity of 1,292MW, and the other one is rated with a nameplate capacity of 1,311MW. Additionally, the facility is the first on the planet to employ cutting-edge, passive safety features which reduces the annual probability of a core meltdown at any of the three units to near statistical zero.