Oldest nuclear plant in France shuts down after incident, no threat posed!!! France’s oldest nuclear plant, Fessenheim, was shut down on Saturday following an incident away from the reactor, a spokeswoman from French electric utility company EDF told Reuters. The incident occurred when a valve in control of the steam supply to the turbine generator accidentally closed. Fessenheims reactor 2 automatically shut down following the malfunction. No danger was posed. Experts are working on fixing the problem, but it is still not known when the reactor will restart. Reactor 1 of the plant has been out of operation since April 9, following a leak in a water supply pipe. These are two incidents that have no bearing on the security of the plants nor for the environment, the spokeswoman said.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 09:07:47 +0000
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