Czech Temelin plans to restart Unit 2 on Thursday

...about a two-month outage to exchange one quarter of its fuel, the plant's owner CEZ said on Tuesday.

CEZ said it expected to reconnect the reactor to the power grid in the middle of next week.

CEZ operates two 1,000-megawatt reactors at Temelin, which is near the Austrian border in south of the country. The Unit 1 was running at 97 percent of capacity on Tuesday morning.

Temelin is the biggest asset of state-owned CEZ, Europe's second largest power exporter after France's EDF . It accounts for 16 percent of CEZ's installed domestic capacity.