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Four of Britain’s dwindling fleet of nuclear power plants look set to remain on stream for at least a further two years, EDF Energy announced on Tuesday, as the French state-owned operator said it aimed to halt seven years of declining output.
The UK’s nuclear generating capacity has fallen rapidly since the start of the decade as three of the country’s eight ageing power stations closed. But EDF, which owns the country’s nuclear fleet via a joint venture with Centrica, said it now planned to explore keeping two of the power stations — Heysham 2 and Torness — open beyond their planned closure date of 2028.
This follows an announcement last year by the company of similar plans to keep the two other power stations that use the same reactor design — Hartlepool and Heysham 1 — open for at least two years beyond their scheduled closure date of…