Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant Fully Operational

nuclearPLYMOUTH – The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth is back online after a $70 million refueling and maintenance project.

Entergy spokeswoman Lauren Burm said the plant is back up to full power.

“Pilgrim has returned to operating at 100 percent power,” she said. “Control room operators reconnected Pilgrim to the grid after our 35-day planned refueling outage.”

Burm said the project included adding new components and safety systems in regards to a Fukushima-type accident.

According to Burm, staffing was significantly increased during the plants shut down.

“We had nearly 2,000 employees including around 1,100 extra contract workers here on site that performed hundreds of activities that can only be done when the plant is offline,” she said.

Burm says plant personnel identified an issue with a condenser during the startup of the turbine generator on Friday morning and power was lowered to fix the problem.

The plant generates 680 megawatts of electricity, which is enough to power about 680,000 homes.

Pilgrim operated at 97 percent capacity in 2014.



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