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Kansas Wolf Creek reactor starts to exit outage

Fri May 1, 2009 7:31am EDT

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NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp's 1,166-megawatt Wolf Creek reactor in Kansas started to exit an outage and ramped up to 1 percent by early Friday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report.

The unit shut on April 28 on low steam generator level due to a feed water valve failure.

The Wolf Creek station, which entered service in 1985, is located in Burlington in Coffey County about 70 miles south of Topeka, the state capital.

One MW powers 800 homes in Kansas.

In 2008, the NRC renewed the plant's original 40-year operating license for another 20 years until 2045.

Wolf Creek is owned by Great Plains Energy Inc 's (GXP.N) Kansas City Power & Light (47 percent), Westar Energy Inc (WR.N) (47 percent) and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative Inc (6 percent). (Reporting by Scott DiSavino; editing by Jim Marshall)



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