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Significant drop in France’s nuclear energy production

Reuters 10th Jan 2020, EDF’s French nuclear power generation fell by a more than expected 3.5 percent last year, the state-owned utility said on Friday. The French company’s domestic nuclear output power dropped to 379.5 terawatt hours (TWh), missing a revised production target of between 384 TWh and 388 TWh.
EDF attributed the drop to a high volume of reactor outages, with nuclear
power output tumbling in the final month of 2019 by 15.2% to 33 TWh. The
operator of France’s 58 nuclear reactors, covering about 75% of the
country’s electricity needs, had revised its 2019 nuclear production
target from 390 TWh to between 384 TWh and 388 TWh in November because of reactor maintenance and safety checks after an earthquake.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-edf-nuclearpower/edf-misses-2019-french-nuclear-power-target-idUSKBN1Z926J

January 14, 2020 - Posted by | business and costs, France

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