CEZ Expects Results of Temelin Turbine Tests Tomorrow

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

CEZ Expects Results of Temelin Turbine Tests Tomorrow
  
Prague, Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- CEZ AS, the main Czech power utility, 
will have results tomorrow of a turbine test at its Temelin plant 
after a glitch that has delayed the new nuclear plant's startup of 
commercial operations, officials said. 

The tests will show whether CEZ can continue the trial runs and begin 
commercial operations in the summer, later than the expected startup 
in May. The reactor had been cut off for checks earlier than planned 
in mid-January, after vibrations occurred in a steam pipe connected 
to the turbine, and was restarted last weekend. The turbine was 
connected to a generator today and experts will have enough data to 
see whether the problem was fixed.