Arizona's Palo Verde Nuclear Power Station Unit 02 Begins Refueling Outage

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)-- Arizona Public Service Company's (Phoenix, Arizona) Palo Verde Nuclear Power Station near Tonopah, Arizona, began its scheduled refuel on unit 02 on Saturday.

Industrial Info Resources has learned from plant officials that the refuel outage will last approximately 30 days. The plant operators are planning other work while the unit is down, including replacing fuel rods, head inspection, vessels, pressurizer, primary coolant system inspection, emergency coolant system inspection, mcc, dcs, scada, storage building, steam generators, equipment lubrication, fuel handling & delivery system, control complex, feed water heaters, reactor core, spent fuel removal, storage building and filters.

The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station is the largest nuclear generating site in the U.S. The station consists of three nuclear reactor units, capable of producing 3,872 megawatts when at full load.

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