Unit 2 at PPL Corporation’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Luzerne County, Pa., resumed generating electricity Friday morning (5/5) after a brief, planned maintenance outage.

During the 7-day outage that started April 29, plant workers repaired a minor steam leak from a pipe inside the massive containment structure that surrounds the Unit 2 reactor.

"The rate of leaking steam was far less than the rate that would have required us to shut down for repairs according to the plant’s operating procedures," said Robert A. Saccone, vice president of Nuclear Operations for PPL Susquehanna.

"By repairing the leak now, and completing other maintenance jobs we identified prior to the shutdown, we have prepared Unit 2 to operate reliably through the summer, when electricity use is greater," he added.

Susquehanna’s Unit 1 continues to operate at full power.

The 2,360-megawatt Susquehanna plant has two boiling water reactors. The plant, located about seven miles north of Berwick, Pa., is owned jointly by PPL Susquehanna LLC and Allegheny Electric Cooperative Inc., and is operated by PPL Susquehanna.

PPL Susquehanna is one of PPL Corporation’s generating facilities. Headquartered in Allentown, Pa., PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) controls about 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets and delivers electricity to more than 5 million customers in Pennsylvania, the United Kingdom and Latin America. More information is available at www.pplweb.com.