Iowa's Duane Arnold Nuclear Energy Center Gears Up for Fall Refueling Outage

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--NextEra Energy Resources Incorporated (NYSE:NEE) (Juno Beach, Florida) is less than a month away from starting the next refueling outage at the Duane Arnold Nuclear Energy Center in Palo, Iowa. The outage consists of balance of plant, major turbine work and refueling.

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Day & Zimmermann will handle the balance of plant work, which will consist of buildings, cooling water systems, and locks and gates. General Electric (NYSE:GE) (Fairfield, Connecticut) will handle the turbine and generator. Officials say that that the outage will be about month long, and employees at the facility already have started pulling rods in preparation.

The 607-megawatt (MW) Duane Arnold Nuclear Energy Center was built in 1975. It features a 600-MW GE steam turbine generator, with a GE Hitachi boiling water reactor boiler and two 2.8-MW Fairbanks Morse internal combustion engines. The plant generates enough power to supply more than 600,000 homes and businesses in Iowa.

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