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Originally Posted by Elixir34
NOT two years to refuel a commercial reactor. Average three weeks. I worked at a plant that was refueled in 17 days. Then it ran at 100% power for 710 consecutive days before the next refueling.
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I've also worked at a number of nuclear plants and seldom are they done anywhere near that fast. In my experience, refueling outages have ALWAYS been maintenance outages too and that stretches them into months 2-3 often.