"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 11/08/14 12:51, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article , Andrew Gabriel
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This is a
quarter of EDF's capacity

Just as well it didn't happen during winter.

It is happening now BECAUSE its is not winter.

Read the press release.
And between the lines.

"Although routine inspections of other boiler spines have not previously
indicated any similar defects EDF Energy has taken the conservative
decision to shut down Heysham 1 Reactor 2 and Hartlepool Reactors 1 and 2
that are of similar design over the next few days to carry out further
inspections in order to satisfy itself and the Regulator that the reactors
can be safely returned to service. Until the results of the further
inspections are known it is not possible to advise exact return to service
dates for these four reactors, however, an initial estimate is that these
investigations will take around eight weeks. EDF Energy's other nuclear
power stations are not affected by this issue as they are of a different
design."

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

I.e. an issue found with a boiler. During routine maintenance designed to
spot exactly this sort of thing. EDF sensibly takes the decision to
inspect all boilers of the same type now, when power demand is
exceptionally low (less than 25GW last night as it happens).

A total non story except they happen to be nuclear power stations and
therefore guaranteed media coverage by ****s .

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