US utility Tennessee Valley Authority took the “precautionary step” of delaying planned outages at the Sequoyah-2 and Watts Bar-1 nuclear power plants this spring by two weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, TVA spokesman Jim Hopson was quoted in media reports as saying.
S&P Global Platts said it is the first announced delay to a US outage.
“For competitive reasons, we don’t provide specifics on our outage dates,” Mr Hopson Hopson said. “However, both of the outages were previously planned for this spring and will begin two weeks later than originally scheduled.”
S&P Global Platts said it is the first announced delay to a US outage.
“For competitive reasons, we don’t provide specifics on our outage dates,” Mr Hopson Hopson said. “However, both of the outages were previously planned for this spring and will begin two weeks later than originally scheduled.”
According to a March 20 letter from the Nuclear Energy Institute to the US Department of Energy a refuelling outage for the 1,139-MW Sequoyah-2 unit was originally scheduled to start in late March while the 1,123-MW Watts Bar-1 unit was set to begin an outage in the middle of April.
TVA operates seven commercial nuclear plants at three nuclear stations: Sequoyah and Watts Bar in Tennessee, and Browns Ferry in Alabama.
