The fifth unit of the Kozloduy NPP will be shut down for planned annual maintenance and refueling with nuclear fuel. The scheduled repair starts on May 5, informs the nuclear power plant.
In implementation of the Kozloduy NPP's diversification program, RWFA type cartridges produced by Westinghouse will be loaded into the unit's reactor after obtaining permission from the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. The amount of new cartridges required for the first recharge was delivered to Kozloduy NPP on April 20. A quarter of the cartridges in the reactor are replaced during each refueling during the annual planned repairs, thus the process of phased transition to the new nuclear fuel will last 4 years.
During the stay, which is planned to end by mid-June, the necessary activities for repair, prevention and preventive maintenance of the equipment and systems of block 5 will be carried out. This will ensure the safe and reliable operation of the nuclear power during the reactor's next fuel campaign, the NPP says.
The sixth unit of the Kozloduy NPP operates according to the electricity production schedule. /BGNES
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