Constellation N.Y. Nine Mile 2 reactor exits outage

NEW YORK, April 18 (Reuters) - Constellation Energy Group Inc's (CEG.N) 1,140-megawatt Unit 2 at the Nine Mile Point nuclear power station in New York exited an outage and ramped up to 30 percent power by early Friday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report.

On Thursday, the unit was operating at 14 percent of capacity. It exited a refueling outage at about 14 percent power by early Thursday but went back off line later that morning when the turbine tripped.

Operators, however, kept the reactor going after the turbine tripped, which allowed the unit to exit the outage by this morning.

The unit shut for the refueling on March 22.

It last shut for refueling from March 20-April 14, 2006. It is on a 24-month refueling cycle.

The 1,761 MW Nine Mile Point station is located in Scriba in Oswego County, about 90 miles east of Rochester New York. There are two units at the station, the 621 MW Unit 1 and Unit 2, which entered service in 1969 and 1988.

Unit 1 continued to operate at full power.

One MW powers about 800 homes in New York.

In October 2006, the NRC renewed the plant's original 40-year operating licenses for both units for another 20 years until 2029 and 2046.