PPL Susquehanna Announces Unit 1 at Susquehanna Nuclear Plant Shuts Down for Planned Inspection

Operators at the PPL Susquehanna nuclear plant in Luzerne County, near Berwick, Pa., shut down the Unit 1 reactor as planned Monday (5/16) for an inspection of the main turbine. "As a precaution, we have decided to inspect the blades on the Unit 1 turbine after finding defects on similar blades in the Unit 2 turbine during a routine inspection as part of the current refueling and maintenance outage," said Timothy S. Rausch, PPL's chief nuclear officer. PPL Susquehanna LLC is one of PPL Corporation's PPL generating affiliates