Nuke Plant Back In Service

POTTSTOWN — Exelon’s Limerick Nuclear Generating Station Unit 2 was returned to service at approximately 1 p.m EDT Sunday following a successful planned maintenance outage that began May 18.

During the outage, workers performed a host of inspections and replaced two steam relief valves to ensure that the plant can continue to run reliably during the peak summer season ahead.

Limerick Unit 1 continued to operate at full power during the outage. Limerick Generating Station is located approximately 21 miles northwest of Philadelphia.  With both units at full power, the site can produce enough carbon-free electricity for 2 million homes.

Exelon Corporation is the nation’s leading competitive energy provider.  Headquartered in Chicago, Exelon has operations and business activities in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Canada. Exelon is the largest competitive U.S. power generator, with approximately 35,000 megawatts of owned capacity comprising one of the nation’s cleanest and lowest-cost power generation fleets.

The company’s Constellation business unit provides energy products and services to approximately 100,000 business and public sector customers and approximately 1 million residential customers. Exelon’s utilities deliver electricity and natural gas to approximately 6.6 million customers in central Maryland, northern Illinois and southeastern Pennsylvania. Learn more at: www.exeloncorp.com.