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River Bend station is a boiling water reactor (BWR) located near St. Francisville, Louisiana. Entergy recently completed HE-UFC^TM ultrasonic fuel cleaning at River Bend. All 411 reload fuel bundles were ultrasonically cleaned during the refueling outage prior to reloading them to the reactor.

The HE-UFC^TM cleaning activity was effective in removing and capturing more than 20,000 Ci of fuel crud activity. A notable improvement in fuel reliability has been observed during subsequent plant operation following HE-UFC^TM. While other plant actions are continuously being taken to improve fuel reliability, HE-UFC^TM is considered to have been the major contributor to this success due to effective removal of debris present on fuel bundle bottom nozzles prior to reloading these bundles to the reactor.