In its course, 48 fuel assemblies will be replaced. It will be the last loading of Westinghouse fuel before the switch to TVEL fuel. For the first time, the TVEL fuel will be used in Summer during the Unit 1 refueling outage. Manipulations with the CASTOR container that will serve for storage of used fuel assemblies will be tested for the first time during the Unit 2 outage.  At these tests, the power plant personnel will verify the container’s transport routes. During the route test, no fuel assemblies will be inserted into the container. The discharge of filled container will occur during the Summer outage of Unit 1. The first CASTOR container, with which the above manipulations will be performed, arrived at Temelín in the end of the past week. The check of two low pressure turbine rotors will be among the most important activities in the non-nuclear part of the power plant.

Almost eight thousand activities are planned in the detailed outage schedule. In addition to 400 permanent staff workers, another 600 people from fifty supplier companies will take part in their provision.

Information on parameters at Unit 1 today on April 29, 2010 at 13:00 o‘clock:

• Unit is in Mode 1 - power operation
• Reactor power is 100 %
• Turbine generator output - 1017 MWe
• Electricity production since the beginning of the year: 2 843 948 MWh

Information on parameters at Unit 2 today on April 29, 2010 at 13:00 o‘clock:

• Unit is in Mode 1 - power operation
• Reactor power is 96 %
• Turbine generator output - 971 MWe
• Electricity production since the beginning of the year: 2 860 928 MWh

Marek Sviták
Spokesman of the ČEZ Group
Nuclear Power Plant Temelín