Entergy to refuel Waterford 3 during outage
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Employees at Entergy Louisiana’s Waterford 3 Steam Electric Station in Killona are gearing up for a refueling outage.
While the plant is off line, customers will receive power from other Entergy generating units as well as power purchased from the market, the utility said in a press release.
Refuelings come every 18 months and site personnel take the nuclear power plant off line so that crews can replace a portion of its spent fuel. Workers perform maintenance and repairs that cannot be conducted during power operations, with a focus on keeping the plant running for the next 18-month run, Entergy said.
Refueling outages typically occur in the spring and fall when milder weather means reduced electricity demand on the grid. Waterford is capable of producing 1157 megawatts of electricity. Along with sister unit River Bend, Waterford provides 17 percent of Louisiana’s electric power.
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