Planned outage of second unit ends at Czechia's Dukovany nuclear power plant

The planned outage of the second unit at the Dukovany nuclear power plant in the Třebíč region has ended. Shortly after midnight, the unit began generating electricity. The outage lasted three weeks. Plant spokesperson Jiří Bezděk told CTK. The outage of the first Dukovany unit is continuing; the plant began it on 2 June and it is due to end next month. The plant has four units.

„We successfully completed all the planned maintenance work during the outage, which involved the most extensive scope of work since 2011. We are now focusing on completing the work, followed by inspections and tests of the first unit's equipment,“ said Roman Havlín, director of the Dukovany nuclear power plant.

Over the past three weeks, technicians replaced more than four dozen valves, with partial replacement of cables and other equipment shared by the first and second units. „Nuclear power plants are key zero-emission sources, and we try to avoid overlapping outages. In this case, we took advantage of a period of lower electricity consumption to carry out work on equipment shared by both units,“ said Bohdan Zronek, a member of ČEZ's board of directors and director of its nuclear energy division.