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Outages extended at Hunterston nuclear plant in Britain

Reuters 18th Dec 2018  EDF Energy has extended by several weeks outages at its Hunterston nuclear
plant in Britain, where two reactors were taken offline after cracks were
discovered in March and October. The Hunterston B-7 reactor is now expected
to return to service on April 30 while Hunterston B-8 is expected to be
back online from March 31, EDF Energy said on its website. No one from EDF
Energy, owned by French energy group EDF, was available immediately to
comment on why the outages had been extended.
https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-nuclear/edf-extends-outages-at-british-nuclear-plant-where-cracks-were-found-idUSL8N1YN3IX

December 20, 2018 - Posted by | safety, UK

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