Czech Temelin says Unit 2 back up after outage

...ending about a two-month outage, the nuclear plant's owner CEZ said on Thursday.

The announcement was expected, as CEZ said on Wednesday it was getting ready to bring the reactor back up following the exchange of one quarter of its fuel.

CEZ operates two 1,000-megawatt reactors at Temelin, which is near the Austrian border in south of the country.

The company said it had raised the Unit 2 output to 80 percent of capacity and planned a series of tests before bringing the reactor to full throttle. The Unit 1 was running at 97 percent of capacity on Thursday morning.

Temelin is the biggest asset of state-owned CEZ. It accounts for 16 percent of CEZ's installed domestic capacity.