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Indian Point 3 Returns to Service after Completing Site's Shortest Refueling Outage
March 31, 2007
Buchanan, New York—The Indian Point 3 nuclear power plant returned to service at 9:56 a.m., after workers safely completed the fourteenth scheduled refueling of the reactor. The outage lasted 24 days and 8 hours, almost one day less than the site's previous shortest outage of 25 days and 6 hours, also at unit 3, in 2003.
Said Entergy Nuclear President Mike Kansler, "Each outage, our highly professional team has been able to safely get more work done in less time which is a credit to their commitment to safety and teamwork. This will help ensure a reliable supply of electricity, which is especially critical through the upcoming summer months."
Indian Point 3 produced more electricity in the operating cycle before this outage, approximately 17.5 billion kilowatt hours, than in any previous cycle. An operating cycle is the period of operation between refueling outages.
Workers replaced 96 of the 193 fuel assemblies used during operation. Fission of uranium heats water in the reactor vessel, which is inside the plant's containment building, to make steam in a second non- radioactive water system that spins a turbine to produce electricity.
Indian Point 2, which was unaffected by the shutdown, is operating at full power.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and local public officials were notified.
Each plant produces about 1,000 megawatts of electricity, approximately the amount used by 2 million homes.
Contact:
Kathleen McMullin
(914) 271-7132 - office
(914) 914-275-3141 - cell
kmcmull@entergy.com
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