The unit entered the planned outage program at the beginning of May 2019, in order to perform scheduled maintenance works, which are performed once every two years for each unit. During the planned outage, 9.000 activities were performed from the following programs: the preventive and corrective maintenance program, the inspections program, the mandatory testing program during planned outages, as per the requirements of the National Commission for the Control of Nuclear Activities, which ca be performed with the power plant in shutdown mode; the design modification implementation program for certain systems/equipment/components.
All the works related to the planned outage were performed under nuclear safety conditions for the personnel of the power plant, the public and the environment, as per the procedures used at Cernavoda nuclear power plant.