Torness tackles biggest-ever outage

摘要

The Torness-1 advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) was taken off line on February 2 for a statutory inspection outage, which is required every three years under the plant's nuclear site license. The focus of an AGR statutory outage is inspection, maintenance, and testing, while a number of improvement projects are carried out at the same time. A refueling operation, which involves the replacement of only a few fuel elements, is done at the end of the outage. This latest outage, explained Ross McAllister, technical and safety support manager at the EDF Energy plant, is the most extensive in the plant's history.