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UK: Faults in 2 nuclear reactors result in shut-down

Nuclear reactors in northern England to be shut down due to faults
Defects found in boiler units lead to four reactors being taken offline, two at Heysham 1 and two at Hartlepool, for eight weeks    theguardian.com, Monday 11 August 2014 Four nuclear reactors at two large power plants in the north of England are to be shut down temporarily, after inspectors discovered a fault with a boiler unit.

EDF Energy said four reactors at its Heysham 1 and Hartlepool plants were to be shut down while investigations continued looking into the defect.

The outages mean a third of Britain’s nuclear capacity will be offline this week, following temporary maintenance work taking place at two of EDF’s other reactors in Scotland and Kent…….http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/11/nuclear-reactors-offline-fault-power-plants

August 12, 2014 - Posted by | general

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