France’s state-controlled utility EDF has permanently shut down the Fessenheim’s nuclear power unit, which began operation in April 1978 and was the oldest commercial reactor in the country.
The shutdown, at 22:00 local time on 29 June, brings the number of commercial reactors in France’s nuclear fleet to 56.
Fessenheim-1, an identical 880-MW pressurised water reactor was permanently shut down on 22 February 2020.
In September 2019, EDF submitted an application to France’s nuclear regulator ASN and the French government for the closure of the two units at Fessenheim, in eastern France near the border with Germany
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