By Paul Homewood
The latest news on Hunterston from The Ferret:
Pressure is mounting to keep two nuclear power reactors at Hunterston in North Ayrshire closed after the company that runs them, EDF Energy, said it had found more cracks and was again postponing plans to restart.
The French company now estimates that there are 370 major cracks in the graphite core of reactor three and 200 cracks in the core of reactor four. Reactor three has been closed down since 9 March 2018, and reactor four since 2 October.
The day after The Ferret revealed in November that 350 cracks had been discovered in reactor three in breach of an operating safety limit, EDF postponed restarting both reactors to January and February.
But there's been a further delay, with the company now hoping to restart reactor four at the end of March and reactor three at the end of April.
Full story here.
Problems with cracks at Hunterston are not new. Back in 2014, the BBC reported that new cracks found then could threaten EDF plans to extend the life of Hunterston to 2023.
In theory, the UK has 9.3 GW of nuclear capacity, of which Hunterston accounts for 1.2 GW.
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