Spain’s Cofrentes shuts to replacernfuel assembly, operator says

摘要

Spain’s Cofrentes was preparing to restart May 7 afterrnreplacing a fuel assembly with an unspecified performancernproblem, according to the country’s regulator and operatorrnIberdrola.rnSpain’s nuclear regulator, CSN, said the unit was inrnstart-up mode May 7, preparing to exit the outage thatrnbegan April 26.rnIberdrola, which owns the Cofrentes BWR, said in a statementrnApril 25 that the unit would be shut for about 12 daysrnto replace one of the 624 fuel assemblies in the core. Thernreplacement of the assembly was carried out to avoid operatingrnrestrictions that would have been required without thernchange, Iberdrola said.