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Unplanned nuclear power outages are reducing UK’s electricity output

 Unplanned outages at Hartlepool nuclear power plant’s two 620-MW reactors
are set to last until Feb. 4 and Feb. 6, UK operator EDF Energy said in
transparency notes Jan. 8. Production at the County Durham site in
northeast England had ceased Jan. 6 “for maintenance activities”, EDF
Energy said. No further details were available.

The outage at Hartlepool
compounds UK nuclear problems in the new year after an unplanned outage at
Heysham nuclear plant Dec. 29 took another 585-MW reactor out of service.
Failure of a steam valve at reactor 1 at Heysham 1 saw reactor 2 taken
offline for inspections. Reactor 1 is due back Jan. 24, EDF data showed.

An inspection of similar valves at reactor 2 at Heysham 1, meanwhile, is
expected to keep the unit offline until Jan. 16. Meanwhile, reactor 7 at
Heysham 2 has been offline since early December for planned refueling, due
back Jan. 27, with only reactor 8 (624 MW) currently online at the
Lancashire site on the northwest coast of England.

 S&P Global 8th Jan 2024

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/010824-hartlepool-outage-takes-uk-nuclear-availability-down-to-345-gw

January 12, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | ENERGY, UK