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  • CEZ obtained a permit for further operation of Temelín Nuclear Power Plant

    CEZ obtained a permit for further operation of Temelín Nuclear Power Plant

    CEZ received a permit from the State Office for Nuclear Safety (SÚJB) for further operation of Unit 1 of the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant.

    The operation permit is subject to regular ten-year cycles, during which Czech nuclear power plants must demonstrate that they meet all the conditions related to their safe operation.

    The documentation handed over alone contained 163.000 pages of professional documents.

    A team of experts has been working on the renewal of the permit to operate the first unit since the end of 2018. Among other things, they had to supply the state office with twenty so-called proofs.

    In practice, it has always been an extensive package of documentation, assessments, plans, and analyses.

  • Czech Temelín’s Unit 2 began to produce electricity again

    Czech Temelín’s Unit 2 began to produce electricity again

    Temelín’s Unit 2 began to produce electricity again at 50 % of the reactor rated power. The technicians are now waiting for the tests at 80 percent of reactor rated power to check the reactor core power distribution.

    The operators shut it down as planned for refueling on June 12. The outage lasted 58 days and, during it, the technicians replaced a quarter of the fuel, checked the safety systems, and mastered 55 investment actions.

    During the outage, the technicians replaced 42 out of 163 fuel assemblies in the reactor.

    Altogether, one thousand workers including the suppliers participated in the outage. At the same time, the power engineers planned the outage works so that Unit 2 at Temelín would be connected before the planned disconnection of the Dukovany Unit 2.

    Together with the Dukovany power plant, all six nuclear units are currently in operation.