FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., has announced that its Beaver Valley Power Station Unit 1 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania had shut down operations as of April 25th at 12:01am for scheduled refuelling and maintenance.
While the unit is offline, 61 of the 157 fuel assemblies will be replaced and numerous safety inspections will be conducted. In addition, preventative maintenance to ensure continued safe and reliable operations will be performed on major components including the plant’s three steam generators as well as various pumps, valves and the cooling tower.
More than 1,000 temporary contractor workers and FENOC and FirstEnergy employees will supplement the Beaver Valley workforce during the outage.
The 939-megawatt Beaver Valley Unit 1 has operated safely and reliably, generating more than 11 million megawatt hours of electricity since the completion of its last refuelling in November 2013.