UAE’s Nawah Energy Co. Completes Fuel Assembly Loading at Barakah Unit 2

Nawah Energy Company, the operations and maintenance subsidiary of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC), said it has successfully completed loading the fuel assemblies into the reactor of Unit 2 of Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant.

Following this successful loading, it will now commence testing Unit 2’s systems, prior to the start-up of the reactor, before gradually raising power levels while conducting a series of tests, a process called Power Ascension Testing (PAT).

Nawah said its diverse team of expert operators had followed strict guidelines and international best practices in loading the fuel assemblies into Unit 2, thus concluding the process one year after successfully completing the same work at Unit 1.

Nawah had earlier this month received the operating licence from the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), to operate Unit 2 of the Barakah Plant for a duration of 60 years following the safe completion of all national inspections.