Friday, June 15, 2007

British Energy Starts Unit 8 at Hinkley Point B Nuclear Plant After Repair

(Bloomberg) -- British Energy Group Plc, which
operates nuclear reactors that can produce about a fifth of the
U.K.'s electricity, restarted Unit 8 of its Hinkley Point B plant,
which had been offline since October.

The 610-megawatt unit started production at about 5 p.m.
yesterday and was running at a reduced output of 90 megawatts at 8
a.m. today, according to a Web site run by National Grid Plc. The
unit had been offline since Oct. 19 for repairs to cracked boiler
tubes.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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