The primary focus of the maintenance outage is to replace a relief valve inside the drywall of containment.
The company said Plant Hatch Unit 1 will continue to safely generate electricity while Unit 2 is offline.
Southern Nuclear, a subsidiary of Southern Company, operates the Edwin I Hatch Nuclear Plant near Baxley, Georgia., the Joseph M Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan, Alaska, and the Alvin W Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, Georgia.
US-based Southern Company is an energy company serving the southeast.
