Yesterday at 20:40 o'clock, the Unit 2 has been re-synchronized to the power distribution grid and, starting from this noon, it will operate at full power. During the two days outage, the regular test of the clusters drop has been performed that was originally planned for the last weekend of December. The test confirmed good parameters of the modernized fuel assemblies placed within the reactor core.

The reason of the switching of Unit 2 from the power grid has been established by examination.  The impulse for it was the actuation of the earth connection generator protection at an auxiliary system of these protections. It was due to a contact of a steel cable used at the repair of a crane track in the machine hall. It was the first occurrence of such root case. Based on this experience, the Temelín NPP management adopted preventive technical and organizational measures that are to be implemented at both units.

Information on parameters at Unit 1 today on November 27, 2008 at 9:00 o‘clock:

• Unit is in Mode 6 
• Reactor power is 0 %
• Turbine generator output - 0 MWe
• Electricity production since the beginning of the year:  4 347 699 MWh

Information on parameters at Unit 2 today on November 27, 2008 at 9:00 o‘clock:

• Unit is in Mode 1 - power operation
• Reactor power is 100 %
• Turbine generator output - 996 MWe
• Electricity production since the beginning of the year: 6 518 309 MWh

Marek Sviták
Spokesman of the ČEZ Group
Nuclear Power Plant Temelín