The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant has returned the Unit 2 reactor to service following a 27-day scheduled refueling and maintenance project.
During the outage, completed last Friday, the Browns Ferry team logged about 193,000 man-hours of work activities, including the installation of 260 new fuel assemblies in the Unit 2 reactor core. In all, 12,250 work activities were completed with the help of 830 TVA and contract workers during the outage.
“The Browns Ferry team did an excellent job coming together to successfully complete Unit 2’s refueling outage,” Site Vice President Keith Polson said in a statement. “Their work ensures that plant equipment is even more reliable and that Unit 2 is ready for the next two-year cycle.”
At full capacity, Browns Ferry’s three units generate a combined 3,300 megawatts of electricity, which is 10 percent of TVA’s total generation capacity and enough electricity to power 2 million homes.