PG&E Calif. Diablo Canyon reactor up to full power

NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - PG&E Corp's (PCG.N) 1,122-megawatt Unit 1 at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California ramped up to full power as of early Thursday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in its daily reactor status report.

On Wednesday, the unit was operating at 78 percent of capacity.

The unit was shut on Sept. 21 to fix one of six feedwater heaters, which are part of the system that supplies feedwater to the unit's steam generators. All six feedwater heaters are necessary to continuously operate at full power.

The 2,240 MW Diablo Canyon station is located in Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County about 195 miles (314 km) northwest of Los Angeles.

The station has two units, the 1,122 MW Unit 1 and the 1,118 MW Unit 2.

Unit 2, which was expected to shut in early October for a planned month-long refueling outage, continued to operate at full power.

One MW powers about 700 homes in California.

PG&E, of San Francisco, owns and operates more than 6,200 MW of generating capacity, markets energy commodities, and transmits and distributes electricity to almost 5.3 million customers and natural gas to 4.2 million customers in California. (Reporting by Joe Silha; Editing by Christian Wiessner)