On 11/08/14 12:08, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
EDF has found a fault during routine inspection which requires 4 of
its nuclear reactors to be closed down. The closedown will take a
few days. They hope to have them back online in October. This is a
quarter of EDF's capacity.

No it hasnt.

That is a gross distoirtion

http://newsroom.edfenergy.com/News-R...pdate-2db.aspx

Basically they found an issue in routine maintenance with one boiler
spine. Nothing to do with the reactors themselves, and are shutting the
rest down as a precaution so they can inspect them.

Because shutting them down now when electricity prices are low is better
than in the winter.



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