Beaver Valley Unit 2 Nuclear Power Station Begins Refueling Outage  

Akron, Ohio, October 10, 2021 – Energy Harbor Corp. announced today its Unit 2 at the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, was taken offline at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, October 10, for scheduled refueling and preventative maintenance.

While the unit is offline, about a third of the unit’s 157 fuel assemblies will be replaced. Preventive maintenance and safety inspections to ensure continued safe and reliable operations also will be performed on major components including various pumps, valves, reactor vessel, steam generators, and turbine generator. In total, more than 7,600 work activities will be completed during the refueling outage.

More than 1,000 temporary contractor workers and Energy Harbor employees will supplement more than 700 Beaver Valley employees during the outage. The additional workforce will provide a multi-million-dollar boost to the local economy as workers stay in area hotels, eat in local restaurants, and frequent area stores.

The 963-megawatt unit at the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station has operated safely and reliably, generating more than 12 million megawatt-hours of electricity since the completion of its last refueling in May 2020, enough to power one million homes annually.