Entergy’s Indian Point Unit 3 Returns to Service after $100 Million Refueling

Entergy announced that its Indian Point Unit 3 nuclear power plant returned to service on 18th May after its successful scheduled $100 million refueling, maintenance and inspection outage. Control room operators starts sending electricity to the grid after a planned shutdown that began March 13.

Among the items inspected were bolts on a removable liner inside the reactor. Specialists replaced 270 bolts and confirmed that the plates secured by these bolts remained structurally sound and functional.

Indian Point VP and Entergy’s top official, Tony Vitale said that they will continue to provide reliable, safe and clean electricity to millions of New Yorkers for the next four years, in accordance with their settlement agreement with New York State. Entergy continues to make the investments needed to ensure continued safe operation through 2021, as evidenced by the $100 million invested in the last two months on Indian Point Unit 3 alone. Nearly 2,000 professionals, including 1,000 specialist contractors, performed hundreds of work tasks and activities that can only occur while the plant is shut down. Hundreds of thousands of person-hours of work were performed over the last two months to prepare Indian Point for safe, continuous operation for the next four years.

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