EDF hit with second improvement notice for nuclear plant incidents

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served an improvement notice to EDF for the second time in five days. The latest improvement notice follows an incident at Heysham 1 Power Station in Lancashire. The incident occurred on 23 December 2023 while Reactor 1 was being returned to service when a valve controlling the flow of superheated steam from the reactor failed, resulting in a steam leak.

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