Limerick’s safe outage during the pandemic: A refueling success story
Before the spring outage at Limerick-1 began, Exelon Generation implemented rigorous procedures to keep its employees and contractors—and the public—safe.
Refueling a nuclear reactor under normal circumstances can be a challenging endeavor, with hundreds of maintenance activities and inspections to perform in a short window of time, and more than a thousand supplemental workers on-site to complete the work safely and effectively. But these are anything but normal circumstances.