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Yes. The refueling takes the most time but that is planned years in advance. A one-year planned outage every decade can still be 24/7/365 in the other nine years.

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Natrium is expected to spend around 1 month refueling every 24 months.

So that is say 5% downtime. Add in time for upgrades and refurbishments, and refueling periods alone are bang on the 10% downtime number.

Ah yes, the ol' GitHub method of reporting. "When we're up, we have lots of nines!"

Which is why people who run websites shouldnt be allowed anywhere near powerplants.

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