TVA restarts Sequoyah unit after electricity fault

Mar 10 - Chattanooga Times Free Press (TN)

The Unit 1 reactor at the Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant resumed power generation Monday, a week after an electricity fault caused the turbine to go offline and shut down the reactor.

TVA spokesman Jim Hopson said the Sequoyah unit was restarted about 9:21 a.m. Monday morning and should ascend to full power by today. TVA workers corrected a wiring problem in part of the generator on the non-nuclear portion of Sequoyah.

The Unit 1 reactor at Sequoyah near Soddy-Daisy can generate enough power to supply the electricity needs for two cities the size of Chattanooga .

The Sequoyah unit tripped on March 2 just as TVA was reactivating the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant following a 9-day outage caused by a reactor trip last month.

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