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EDF Energy stops Heysham nuclear unit for repair

Fri, 6th Jul 2012 15:38

LONDON, July 6 (Reuters) - EDF Energy on Friday stopped the 610-megawatt (MW) unit 2 at its He

ysham 1 nuclear power plant to repair a leak in a pipe and postponed a planned outage on the plant's unit 1 which was scheduled to start on Friday, the company said.

'We took Heysham 1 unit 2 offline on Friday July 6 at 1330 GMT to allow repairs to a leak in a pipe leading from the unit's main boiler feed pump,' a spokeswoman said.

The company did not say when the planned outage on unit 1 will now take place.

(Reporting by Karolin Schaps. Editing by Jane Merriman) Keywords: BRITAIN NUCLEAR/HEYSHAM

(karolin.schaps@thomsonreuters.com)(+44 0207 542 6622)(Reuters Messaging: karolin.schaps.reuters.com@reuters.net)

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