The restart of four nuclear reactors in France has been delated as state power company and nuclear operator EDF strives to return to service plants that have been offline for repairs related to corrosion.
The Penly-2 and Golfech-1 plants are now not set to come back online until June 2023.
An outage at Cattenom-3 has been extended by one month to 26 March 2023 and the restart of Civaux-2 has been postponed by more than a month to 19 February.
EDF also warned it might have to carry out lengthy repairs at seven other plants next year, further straining power supplies.
The Penly-2 and Golfech-1 plants are now not set to come back online until June 2023.
An outage at Cattenom-3 has been extended by one month to 26 March 2023 and the restart of Civaux-2 has been postponed by more than a month to 19 February.
EDF also warned it might have to carry out lengthy repairs at seven other plants next year, further straining power supplies.
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