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France's EDF maintains Flamanville 3 ramp-up schedule despite additional maintenance
EDF, the French state-owned power group, said Tuesday that it expects its Flamanville 3 nuclear reactor to reach full capacity by mid-2025 despite ongoing problems with the water cooling circuit. Data published by France's utility on Monday shows that the reactor will now be expected to return after maintenance on April 11, which is two months from the start of the outage. In an email to the group, it said that the shutdown had been extended in order to perform additional maintenance on the nuclear portion of the installations. EDF stated that the initial shutdown was caused by a decrease...