Unit 2 at Alabama's Joseph Farley Nuclear Plant Taken Offline for Repairs

SUGAR LAND--December 15, 2014--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--One of the two generating units at the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant, which is located in Columbia, Alabama, was taken offline over the weekend for an unplanned outage. The station is owned by Alabama Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE:SO) (Atlanta, Georgia).

Within this article: Details on the shutdown, including current schedules, suspected causes and affected capacity.