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Torness nuclear reactor has 'unplanned outage'
2014-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A nuclear reactor at the Torness power station in East Lothian has gone offline in an unplanned outage, its operator has said. EDF Energy said the 640MW Torness 2 reactor went offline at 01:16 on Friday. The unit was expected to remain unavailable for seven days, the firm said. It means nearly 5GW of British nuclear capacity is offline. The reactor normally has a capacity of 640 megawatts. Paul Winkle, Torness Power Station director, said: "The reactor shutdown safely and cooling to the...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical