The heavy workloads at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant are over, but there is another twist in the story

So, the ordered yesterday afternoon 240 MW load shed which affected these three units and from Thursday afternoon, the power plant will be producing again at a specified output. This can be seen in the jump of the blue line in the figure below in the afternoonand based on the total plant management measurement data, the production of the power plant was around 1940 MW on Thursday evening, which was without self-consumption, in terms of actual grid feed, it represents a production of around 1,830 MW (based on bare plant control measurement data).

However, this mainstream supply does not stay like this for long, as the Paks Nuclear Power Plant issued another notification on Thursday publishedaccording to which “from 0:00 on August 23, 2024, unit 3 will be closed for major repairs by experts of the nuclear power plant”. This means that the third block with a rated output of 506 MW will be out of production for a long time from now, and the other three blocks must provide the current production of string, as much as the water temperature of the Danube allows another heat wave that is expected in the coming days. According to the rules, if a measured value It rose above 29.5 degrees again, and the blocks had to be loaded again with 80-80 MW every 0.1 degree.

On August 22, 28.8 degrees were measured in the section 500 meters down from the entry point of the cooling water channel at a depth of half a meter, and 28.48 degrees at a depth of a meter and a half, so these are the lowest values . of the past few days, so the distribution was stopped.

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