Dominion News Releases

May 12, 2000

Dominion's Surry Unit 1 Achieves World Record Nuclear Refueling Outage

Richmond,Va. -- Dominion Generation, a unit of Dominion (NYSE: D), completed this week a refueling and maintenance outage at its Surry Power Station Unit 1 in a world record for a Westinghouse three-loop nuclear reactor.

The refueling outage ended Tuesday and lasted 23 days, 15 hours and 45 minutes. The previous record for a Westinghouse three-loop reactor was 24 days set by Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point Unit 4 in the spring of 1999.

Prior to shutting down April 16 for the refueling outage, Surry Unit 1 operated for a station record 507 consecutive days, topping the previous station record of 502 days set by Surry Unit 2 in the spring of 1999. Both Surry units continuously operated for 277 days prior to the Unit 1 refueling outage, which was another record accomplishment by the station.

Surry Unit 2 has been on line for 301 days. Its next scheduled refueling outage will begin in October.