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Tractebel Energy Engineering helps reducing the duration of planned outage at Doel 1 & 2

A new milestone in the "Doel 1/2 second ten-yearly safety reassessment" project

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Thanks to studies carried out by Tractebel Energy Engineering, the duration specified in the Technical Specifications between the reactor shutdown and the refuelling itself has been drastically reduced for Doel 1 and Doel 2 nuclear units.

This means that operators are now able to start the refuelling operations about 25 hours earlier than before. The actual benefit for Electrabel amounted to18 hours saved on the last outage of Doel 1 (August-September 2000), where these new Technical Specifications were first applied.

This net gain on the critical path was possible thanks to a re-evaluation of the radiological consequences of the (potential) fuel handling accident and to the demonstration that the cooling of the spent fuel stored in the pools is ensured under all operating conditions.
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