PRAGUE, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Temelin, the Czech Republic's
biggest power station, will restart its 1,000 megawatt Unit 1 on
Friday, after an...
...outage lasting almost two months, the nuclear
plant's owner CEZ said on Friday.
The company said it would perform a series of tests after
the reactor's minimum output is reached on Friday. The output
will then be gradually boosted so the Unit 1 is ready to
re-connect to the power grid next week.
CEZ operates two 1,000-megawatt reactors at Temelin, which
is near the Austrian border in the south of the country.
The Unit 1 shut down at the beginning of August for planned
maintenance, which included the exchange of a quarter of the
reactor's fuel. The Unit 2 was running at 100 percent of
capacity on Friday 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.