BERWICK, Pa., April 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Operators at PPL's
Susquehanna nuclear power plant
disconnected the Unit 2 reactor from the electrical grid late
Friday (4/10) to begin a scheduled refueling and maintenance
outage.
While the reactor is shut down, workers will replace about 40
percent of the uranium fuel and complete a number of equipment
maintenance tasks and upgrades. The plant also will be investing
millions to upgrade equipment with state-of-the-art technology and
to perform thousands of routine maintenance tasks that keep the
plant in good condition.
As part of the large undertaking, plant employees purchased a
significant amount of goods and services locally and hired about
1,000 contract workers, who boost the nearby economy with
expenditures on lodging, food and entertainment.
PPL schedules nuclear refueling and maintenance outages at this
time of year, when seasonal temperatures bring less electricity use
and the demand on the regional power grid is lower. Each of the two
units at the Susquehanna plant is
taken out of service for refueling and maintenance every 24
months.
Unit 1 continues to operate at full power.
PPL Susquehanna LLC is one of PPL Corporation's generating
affiliates. PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), with 2014 revenues of
$11.5 billion, is one of the largest
companies in the U.S. utility sector. The PPL family of companies
delivers electricity and natural gas to about 10 million customers
in the United States and the
United Kingdom. PPL has announced
an agreement to combine its competitive generation business with
the competitive generation business of Riverstone Holdings LLC to
form Talen Energy Corporation. More information is available at
www.pplsusquehanna.com and www.pplweb.com.
Note to Editors: Visit our media website at www.pplnewsroom.com
for additional news and background about PPL Corporation.
Contact:
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Joe Scopelliti,
866-832-4474, jjscopelliti@pplweb.com
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PPL
Susquehanna
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SOURCE PPL Susquehanna LLC