SODDY-DAISY, Tenn. – The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Unit 1 safely began a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage Friday evening after generating more than 13.2 billion kilowatt-hours of carbon-free energy during its most recent, 521-day operational cycle.
“TVA is a nuclear energy leader and planned outages like this one allow us to complete necessary work to upgrade and make improvements to plant systems, helping ensure we continue delivering low-cost and reliable American energy to power homes, businesses, AI and advanced manufacturing,” said Kevin Michael, TVA Sequoyah site vice president. “The team will load 72 new nuclear fuel assemblies and perform key maintenance activities that can only be safely completed with the unit offline.”
Planning for this outage began more than three years ago as part of the site’s standard work management practices to ensure all work can be completed safely and as scheduled…