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Hunterston Graphite Cracks / EDF Energy Delays Restart Of B-1 Reactor

By David Dalton
4 September 2019

 EDF Energy Delays Restart Of B-1 Reactor
EDF Energy has extended an outage at the Hunterston B-1 reactor on the west coast of Scotland to 15 January 2020 from a previously scheduled 1 October, the British arm of French utility EDF said.The 490-MW advanced gas-cooled rector unit has been offline since March 2018 after routine inspections found cracks in its graphite core. Its restart has been delayed several times since.

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