Indian Point 2 Back in Service

CORTLANDT, NY – Indian Point’s Unit 2 nuclear power plant returned to service Tuesday afternoon.

It was back to generating electricity three days after control room operators safely shut it down following a power loss to several control rods.

Before the Saturday shutdown, Unit 2 was the workhorse at Indian Point. Prior to the brief outage, the plant had run continuously for 627 days, a record for that unit, officials said.

On Saturday, operators determined a tripped circuit breaker on the non-nuclear side of the plant resulted in power being lost to several control rods. All control rods and related electrical equipment was tested satisfactorily by Indian Point engineers prior to placing the plant back in service.

Control rods help control power levels of the reactor’s fuel. When all control rods are out of the fuel, the reactor is operating at full power.

All equipment responsible for the safe shutdown of the plant at Unit 2 operated as designed during the shutdown.