PPL Corporation Delays Return Date for Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Station

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Researched by Industrial Information Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--On April 5, Susquehanna Nuclear Power Station (Berwick, Pennsylvania) took Unit 2 offline for planned refueling, as well as turbine and generator maintenance. While nearing the end of this outage, inspectors did a walkthrough and found faulty, unreliable blades in the low-pressure turbine. Engineers said that if this had not been detected, the blades could have caused severe damage to other blades and the nuclear reactor. As of now, officials are looking to have the unit back online in June.

PPL Corporation (NYSE:PPL) (Allentown, Pennsylvania) owns 90%, while Allegheny Electric Cooperative Incorporated owns 10%. The plant went commercial in June 1983, and with units 1 and 2 in 1985. PPL Susquehanna LLC, a subsidiary of PPL Generation LLC, which itself is a subsidiary of PPL Corporation, operates and maintains the plant, which consists of two General Electric (NYSE:GE) (Fairfield, Connecticut) Tandem Compound Six Flow steam turbine and two direct-cycle water-reactor boilers, for a total of 2,275 megawatts.

Through its subsidiaries, PPL Corporation generates electricity, owns and operates power plants, and markets wholesale/retail energy in the northeastern and western regions of the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Europe.

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