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<strong>atw</strong> Vol. 63 (<strong>2018</strong>) | Issue 5 ı May<br />

340<br />

Emsland<br />

REPORT<br />

Operating sequence in 2017<br />

Electrical output in %<br />

100<br />

90<br />

80<br />

70<br />

60<br />

50<br />

40<br />

30<br />

20<br />

10<br />

0<br />

January February March April May June July August September October November December<br />

Apart from the overall maintenance outage in May and June and the<br />

refuelling outage by the end of the year 2016 the Emsland nuclear<br />

power plant had been operating uninterrupted and mainly at full<br />

load during the review period 2017. Producing a gross power<br />

generation of 11,323,704 MWh with a capacity factor of 93.13 %<br />

the power plant achieved again a very good operating result.<br />

Planned shutdowns<br />

29 th refuelling and overall maintenance inspection:<br />

Bye the end of 2016 the KKE did a second refuelling outage ending at<br />

7 January 2017. Main task was the replacement of 16 fuel elements.<br />

30 rd Refuelling and overall maintenance outage:<br />

100 The annual outage was scheduled for the period 13 May 1 June. The<br />

outage took 18.5 days from breaker to breaker. In addition to the<br />

replacement 80<br />

of 24 fuel elements the following major maintenance<br />

and inspection activities were carried out:<br />

• 60 Inspection of core and reactor pressure vessel internals.<br />

• Inspection of a reactor coolant pump.<br />

•<br />

40<br />

Inspection of pressurizer valves.<br />

• Eddy current testing of steam-generator tubes.<br />

20<br />

• Pressure test on different coolers and tanks.<br />

• Inspection of a main condensate pump.<br />

0<br />

• Maintenance works on different transformers.<br />

• Different automatic non-destructive examinations.<br />

Unplanned shutdowns and reactor/turbine trip<br />

None.<br />

Power reductions above 10 % and longer than for 24 h<br />

Stretch-out operation from 16 April to 13 May.<br />

National Peer Review<br />

Risk assessment.<br />

WANO Review/Technical Support Mission<br />

WANO Follow-up.<br />

Delivery of fuel elements<br />

• 24 Uranium-fuel elements.<br />

Waste management status<br />

5 CASTOR © cask loading were carried out during the review period<br />

2017. At the end of the year 43 loaded casks were stored in the local<br />

interim storage facility.<br />

Positionierung:<br />

Bezug, links, unten<br />

X = 20,475 Y = 95,25 B = 173,5 H = 38,2<br />

VGB: HKS6K 30 %<br />

<strong>atw</strong>: 100 60 0 0<br />

Report<br />

Operating results 2017 – Part I*

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