French energy group EDF has reported discovering a significant new crack in a cooling pipe at a nuclear power plant, highlighting maintenance issues for the state-run aging plants.
— French energy group EDF has reported discovering a significant new crack in a cooling pipe at a nuclear power plant on the Channel coast, in the latest such incident to plague the energy sector. The group has been beset by maintenance problems at its ageing park of reactors over the last year that have forced it to take more than a dozen of them offline for checks and emergency repairs.
EDF last month reported the latest"serious corrosion problem" on an emergency cooling system at its Penly 1 plant in northern France, which was among the 16 taken offline in the last year. The plant started operating in 1990. A file image shows the Penly 1 nuclear power plant on France's north coast, operated by state-owned energy company EDF.The new crack was six inches long and up to an inch deep, covering around a quarter of the circumference of the pipe, which is a little more than an inch thick, France's Nuclear Safety Authority said late on Tuesday.
The regulator ordered EDF to"revise its strategy" of addressing the corrosion problems, which could have major financial repercussions for the debt-laden state-owned utility as well as France's energy production capacity.
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