After an unplanned outage on March 27 due to a gas circulator earth fault, EDF Energy has restarted its Hinkley Point B-8 nuclear reactor, National Grid data showed on Wednesday. The reactor previously had been scheduled to restart on Thursday. It had been due to enter planned maintenance on March...

Penly - a French nuclear reactor owned and operated by EDF - had its 1,330-megawatt Unit 2 reactor automatically shut down after two small fires broke out in the plant Thursday. The fires were caused by hot oil leaking from a pump inside the reactor building, an EDF spokeswoman said, quoted by Reuters...

UK-based EDF Energy has restarted output from two nuclear power plants, with a combined generation capacity of 1,200MW. EDF said its 600-MW Sizewell B1 reactor returned to service several days ahead of schedule on Sunday after an electrical fault automatically shut the site's reactor and turbines...

EDF Energy shut down down its Sizewell and Torness 2 reactors Sunday, according to a statement by the company. The statement said that the reactor at Sizewell was taken offline for scheduled maintenance, but it did not indicate whether Torness 2 was a planned or unplanned outage. The two reactors...

After shutting Sizewell B down due to a potential issue with its lubrication system on Sunday, EDF resumed operation of the nuclear plant's two turbines Tuesday. The short maintenance outage was a precautionary measure, according to Sizewell B director Jim Crawford. “Safety is our over...

EDF's 900-MW Gravelines 6 nuclear reactor in northern France experienced an unplanned outage on Monday at 9:35 GMT, France's power grid RTE said on its website. An EDF spokesman said the outage had been caused by a default on a sensor that measures the good working order of the reactor. ...