{"id":60978,"date":"2021-12-17T07:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60978"},"modified":"2021-12-17T07:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:51:22","slug":"frances-edf-shutters-two-nuclear-power-plants-after-cracks-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60978","title":{"rendered":"France’s EDF Shutters Two Nuclear Power Plants After Cracks Found"},"content":{"rendered":"
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France’s EDF Shutters Two Nuclear Power Plants After Cracks Found<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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\u00c9lectricit\u00e9 de France S.A., commonly known as EDF, a French electric utility company primarily owned by the state, shuttered two nuclear power plants after routine safety inspections found cracks at one power plant.<\/p>\n

EDF wrote in a\u00a0press release<\/a>, “preventive maintenance checks on the primary circuit of reactor number 1 of the Civaux Nuclear Power Plant” found cracks due to corrosion on the pipes.<\/p>\n

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“Checks initiated on the same equipment of reactor number 2 of the Civaux Nuclear Power Plant revealed similar defects,” the French power giant said.<\/p>\n

France’s Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) was informed about cracks detected close to the welds on the reactor’s pipes.<\/p>\n

EDF temporarily closed Civaux to “replace the affected parts on the two Civaux reactors, the work being governed by a technical instruction prepared in cooperation with the ASN, which leads to extend the shutdown of the two reactors,” it said.<\/p>\n

EDF has also chosen to close two reactors at another nuclear plant at Chooz in the northeastern Ardennes department for inspections. Both power plants use the same reactor technology.<\/p>\n