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Exelon Refueling Outage Underway

The everyother year refueling power outage at the Clinton Power Station is now underway.

Tuesday evening, crews took the station offline for the station’s thirteenth scheduled refueling outage. Bill Harris is the Communications Manager at Exelon, he explains while the unit is offline, the station team will perform thousands of inspections and maintenance on a variety of plant components and systems. This includes replacing approximately 40 percent of the reactor’s fuel and a detailed look at one of the station’s low pressure turbines.

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According to Harris, the permanent station team is augmented with about 1,700 skilled workers from local union halls and another 350 staff from other Exelon Nuclear facilities. All of these additional workers fuel Clinton’s local economy for the duration of the outage, a huge economic boost for area hotels, restaurants and markets.

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Harris add many of the activities performed during this outage cannot be performed while the station is operating. All of the activities are designed to enhance the unit’s ability to provide 100% carbonfree electricity for years to come. It is work like this that ensures Exelon Nuclear facilities are safer, more secure.

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According to Harris, once the fuel has been used, it is stored and managed at the Clinton Power Plant. The plant can produce approximately 1,065 net megawatts of electricity.

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