The unit started to exit the outage earlier week but operators shut the reactor before it connected to grid after workers found a leak from a re-circulating pump seal.
The 1,875 MW Brunswick station is situated in Southport in Brunswick county around 160 miles (260 km) south of Raleigh. The station has two units, 938 MW unit 1 and the 937 MW unit 2 which have entered service in 1977 and 1975.
The unit 1 at the station continued to operate at full power.
One MW powers around 700 homes in North Carolina.
The NRC has renewed the plant’s original 40-year operating licenses in 2006, for both units for additional 20 years until 2036 and 2034.
