EDF Warns of French Nuclear Output Cuts in Weekend Heat Wave
Vapor rises from a cooling tower an Electricite de France SA nuclear power plant in Golfech, France.
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Electricite de France SA will probably have to reduce nuclear output over the coming weekend as a heat wave affecting a large part of the country warms rivers used for cooling some of its reactors.
Due to the high temperatures forecast on Rhone river, production restrictions are likely to affect production at its Tricastin power plant — where two of its four 900-megawatt reactors are already offline for maintenance — on Aug. 26, EDF said in a regulatory notice Monday. Output at EDF’s Bugey facility may also be reduced Aug. 26 and 27, the utility said.