NextEra NH Seabrook reactor starts to exit refuel

NEW YORK, Nov 10 (Reuters) - NextEra Energy Resources LLC's 1,245-megawatt Seabrook nuclear power station in New Hampshire started to exit a refueling outage and ramped up to 20 percent power by early Tuesday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report.

The unit shut on Oct. 1.

It last shut for refueling from about April 1-May 8, 2008 and is on an 18-month refueling cycle.

The Seabrook station, which entered service in 1990, is located in Seabrook in Rockingham County, about 40 miles north of Boston.

The company told the NRC it planned to file for a 20-year extension of the original 40-year operating license for the plant in the second quarter of 2010. It usually takes the agency about 22 months to decide on a license renewal without a hearing and about 30 months with a hearing.

One MW powers about 1,000 homes in New Hampshire.

NextEra is a unit of FPL Group Inc (FPL.N).

FPL, of Juno Beach, Florida, owns and operates about 39,000 MW of generating capacity across the United States, markets energy commodities, and transmits and distributes electricity to more than 4.5 million customers in Florida. (Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by John Picinich)