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France's EDF Halts Four Nuclear Reactors due to Heatwave

posted by martyb on Monday August 06 2018, @08:56PM   
from the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlUH40ZEYZo dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Reuters reports:

EDF has halted four nuclear reactors at three power plants in France because of the current heatwave affecting Europe, a spokesman for the utility said on Saturday.

High temperatures registered in the Rhone and Rhine rivers, from which the three power plants pump their water for cooling, led to a temporary shutdown of the reactors, the spokesman said.

The Associated Press story at The Reading Eagle explains that excessive heat is harmful to fish.

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Original Submission

• Re:French clowns. (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @10:47PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 06 2018, @10:47PM (#718025)

  High temperatures registered in the Rhone and Rhine rivers, from which the three power plants pump their water for cooling, led to a temporary shutdown of the reactors, the spokesman said.

  Two of the halted reactors belong to EDF’s Bugey plant, one is located at St. Alban and one in Fessenheim near the German border.
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  EDF’s nuclear plants along the Rhone and the Rhine use the rivers’ waters to regulate the temperature of their reactors, discharging warm water back into the waterway.

  Curbs are placed on the volume of water its plants can use as the rivers’ temperatures rise.

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