Friday, June 22, 2007

British Energy Starts Reactor 1 at Dungeness-B Plant After Two-Day Outage

(Bloomberg) -- British Energy Group Plc, whose
nuclear reactors can produce about a fifth of the U.K.'s
electricity, started production at Unit 1 at its Dungeness-B
plant, which had been offline for two days.

The reactor, which can generate about 550 megawatts of
power, started production at 12:35 p.m. yesterday and was running
at a reduced output of 80 megawatts at 8:30 a.m. today, data on a
Web site operated by National Grid Plc showed. The unit was
halted on June 19 after an unplanned ``circuit-induced trip.''


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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