Nuclear Power Plant news pg. 1124

Unit 2 is in operation at planned power level. At Unit 1, the circulation water pump repair has been completes yesterday in the afternoon and the unit has been synchronized to the power distribution grid.

Unit 2 is in operation at planned power level. Unit 1 reduced automatically the reactor power in compliance with the design to 37 % this morning at 5:31 o‘clock. The turbine generator output was regulated down to 270 MWe. The reason of the power reduction was a trip of one out of two pumps of the circulation cooling water in the non-nuclear part that provided for the circulation of water through the cooling towers.

CEZ Power Company has today presented to the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic the official Information on operating events at Temelin Nuclear Power Plant. This Information was prepared following the requirement which resulted from discussion of the Minister of Industry and Trade Martin Riman, Minister of Environment Martin Bursik, Chairwoman of the State Office for Nuclear Safety Dana Drabova and representatives of CEZ taking place on 17 March, 2007.Since the initiation of trial operation in 2002, there has been no operating event which might be rated as an incident or accident by the international INES scale at Temelin. The Information describes 166 operating events classified as 0 – deviation and 1 – anomaly.

Both Unit 1 and 2 are in operation at full rated power.