The Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant consists of three identical General Electric Company Mark III BWR's, each with an electrical power generating capacity of 1,098 megawatts. Condensate flow for each unit is 26,000 gpm and is treated continuously with powdered resin filter/demineralizers. The reactor coolant system is equipped with a cleanup filter/demineralizer system which also utilizes powdered resin and is rated at 360 gpm or 1.0 percent of feedwater flow. Feedwater heater tube material is type 304 stainless steel piping, heater shells are carbon steel, and the main condenser is tubed with Admiralty.  Appendix A is a comprehensive list of the materials of construction of all systems. Except for the reactor vessels, each unit was preoperationally chemically cleaned including condensate-feedwater, safeguard, and auxiliary systems.(1) Units 1, 2, and 3 were placed in commercial operation in 1974, 1975, and 1977, respectively.

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Water, Materials, Boiling water reactors, Heaters, Reactors, Tubes, Solubility, Corrosion products, Feedwater, Cobalt, Carbon steel, Stainless steel, Resins
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