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 Byron Nuclear Plant Fueling Maintenance and More 
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BYRON – Operators removed Byron Generating Station Unit 1 from service Monday morning, kicking off a planned refueling and maintenance outage.

The most significant upgrade, and the most visible to area residents, will be the replacement of the two Unit 1 main power transformers, which are approaching the end of their normal operating life. The upgrade is part of a fleetwide effort that plant owners Exelon Generation launched more than a decade ago.

Also planned during the generation station’s down time: replacement work on eight large pumps, various electrical maintenance and upgrade projects, and more than 1,000 preventive maintenance tasks.

Exelon said it has hired nearly 1,200 additional workers for the project, something that Deanna Mershon, executive director of the Byron Area Chamber of Commerce, said should prove to be a “boon to our local economy,” with the visiting workers bringing business to local merchants.

While the unit is down, only one of Byron’s two cooling towers will produce vapor.


http://www.saukvalley.com/2017/02/27/exelon-begins-maintenance-at-byron-nuclear-plant/av9p916/

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Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:48 am
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I know refueling outages are nothing new but since it is my local nuclear plant, I wanted to note this refueling here in the forum for my future record. After all, when they open up the reactor during a refueling outage they vent more radiation in a short period than during normal operation.

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