France’s EDF making checks after Flamanville 3 reactor automatically stopped
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PARIS (Reuters) – French state-owned energy firm EDF said on Thursday its teams were making technical checks after the new Flamanville 3 nuclear reactor — already plagued by 12 years of delays and setbacks — automatically stopped one day after entering production.
The Flamanville EPR reactor had on Monday received authorization from the French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) to proceed with divergence operations – the first nuclear fission which allows electricity production to finally begin.
EDF teams carried out these first divergence operations of the reactor on Sept. 3 but on the morning of Sept. 4 the reactor automatically stopped, said an EDF spokeswoman, confirming earlier media reports.
Initial elements from the technical diagnosis suggest the incident « could be linked to an inappropriate configuration of the installation », she said, adding teams were making checks before relaunching divergence.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon and Benjamin Mallet; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
