EDF announced on Tuesday the upcoming shutdown of three additional nuclear reactors for "checks" following corrosion problems on safety systems encountered on other units.

Last December, EDF had already announced the precautionary shutdown of the two reactors of the Chooz power plant (Ardennes) to check for possible faults in its emergency cooling circuit, after the detection of faults in Civaux (Vienne), a another unit of the same model.

A new setback that falls badly at a time when the electricity supply is tight and the sector scrutinized as never before.

These problems prompted the French group EDF to reduce its nuclear electricity production forecast for 2022 “to 300 – 330 TWh, against 330 – 360 TWh”, due to “the extension of the shutdown period of five reactors in the fleet French nuclear power plant from EDF,” the group announced in a press release on Thursday evening.

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