Entergy's 1,067-MW Indian Point-2 nuclear reactor in Buchanan, New York, synchronized with the electricity grid at 11 am EST (1600 GMT) Saturday, ending a 16-day outage to repair one of four reactor coolant pumps, plant spokesman Jerry Nappi said in an email Tuesday.
The unit was operating at 100% of capacity Monday and Tuesday, at 84% Sunday and at 1% early Saturday, according to US Nuclear Regulatory Commission daily reactor status reports.
Operators shut Indian Point-2 "pre-emptively" on December 9 after several days of monitoring water leakage from a seal on one of the reactor coolant pumps, even though "the leakage had not reached the threshold requiring us to shut down the unit," Nappi said in a December 11 email.
The adjacent, 1,080-MW Indian Point-3 reactor has continued to operate at 100%, according to NRC's daily reports.
