Beaver Valley Power Station Unit 2 returns operations after Refueling & Maintenance Outage

FirstEnergy Corp subsidiary, FENOC’s (FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company) Beaver Valley Power Station Unit 2 has returned to service on Sunday, May 21, at 6:18 a.m. after refueling and maintenance. The 933-MW plant is currently operating at about 66 % power.

While the unit was shut down, 53 of the 157 fuel assemblies were replaced. Numerous safety inspections and preventive maintenance and improvement projects were successfully completed, including inspections of the unit’s reactor vessel head, three steam generators and turbine. Enhancements also were made to the unit’s electrical generator to support continued reliable operations. More than 1,000 temporary contractor workers and FENOC and FirstEnergy employees supplemented the Beaver Valley workforce during the outage.

Prior to the outage, Beaver Valley Unit 2 operated safely and reliably, generating more than 11.5 million megawatt hours of electricity since the completion of its last refueling in October 2015.

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