Oswego, NY: 1969 1.9gw Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station

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The Nine Mile Point Generating Station, the oldest operating U.S. nuclear power plant, will soon house the nation’s first nuclear-powered clean hydrogen production facility. This hydrogen fuel cell project is expected to begin production by the end of the year.
"Nine Mile Point, located in Oswego, New York, went online in 1969 and can produce up to 1,907 megawatts.
"Existing nuclear plants could produce high-quality steam at lower costs than natural gas boilers. High-quality steam can also be electrolyzed and split into pure hydrogen and oxygen. This process would allow utilities to produce and sell hydrogen regionally as well as provide clean and reliable electricity to the grid. According to the DOE, a single 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactor could produce more than 150,000 tonnes of hydrogen each year. That means that just ten nuclear reactors could provide about 1.5 million tonnes annually—15 percent of current hydrogen produced in the United States."
[The article doesn't say anything about how the hydrogen would be stored. A graphic implies it would be transported using pipelines. (A different article taught me that pipelines are used by injecting the hydrogen into the natural gas stream. But I lost that link,) This would allow the plant to keep on running when the grid demand goes down because they could dump the excess electricity into electrolysis.]

Bob Ciminel posted
Another plant where I've worked (there are many).
Nine Mile Point, Oswego, NY.
Neil Mor: I did not realize you spent sometime at a boiling water reactor……most folks stick with one type…..
Bob Ciminel: Neil Mor I followed the money. 😀 Actually, most of these were short term visits, but my criteria are: if I was cleared for vital area unescorted access, I was “working.”
Neil Mor: Was it a difficult transition?
Bob Ciminel: Neil Mor Once you figure out that BWRs lead the turbine and PWRs follow the turbine the rest is not difficult.
[PWR = pressurized water reactors.]
Jim Becker: The most interesting job I ever had was working a refuel outage on the refuel floor. At one point I was actually IN the flooded reactor in a stainless steel tub hanging on the inside of the reactor wall.
Bob Ciminel: Jim Becker The joys of nuclear power. I picked up 720 mrem at Millstone 1 tensioning the head in about 30 min.

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A renewed license was approved on Oct 31, 2006, and now "Unit 1 is licensed through 2029, and Unit 2 is licensed through 2046."