The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Unit 1 has begun a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage after producing more than 13.6 billion kilowatt-hours of carbon-free electricity over the past 18 months, including one period of 474 consecutive days of full power operation.
“Outages create different kinds of tasks for the team but our focus remains exactly the same ? performing each job safely and with the highest levels of quality,” said John Carlin, site vice president.
“Unit 2 will remain online during the Unit 1 outage, so all activities are carefully coordinated to maintain public and employee safety.”
An additional 950 TVA and contract employees will supplement the site’s regular staff during the outage, which began Saturday, April 11. More than 12,000 work activities are planned, including loading new fuel assemblies, performing inspections of reactor components, maintaining plant equipment and installing unit enhancements.