Some 2,000 temporary workers will soon be helping Exelon refuel and upgrade a reactor at its Quad Cities nuclear plant near Moline, Ill.Those hired represent a wide range of trades, including welders, pipefitters and millwrights, The Rock Island Argus reported. They will join about 900 permanent employees at the plant. Unit 1 at Quad Cities was refueled last May, and unit 2 will soon go offline. While Exelon did not release the dates it plans to start and complete the outage, websites for nuclear workers who travel to jobs indicated work is scheduled to begin today. The average refueling outage across the Exelon fleet in 2008 was 24 days, according to company promotional material.Both units at Quad Cities are roughly 870 megawatt General Electric boiling water reactors with Mark I containment first licensed in 1972, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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