Friday, July 13, 2007

Vattenfall Will Keep Germany's Kruemmel Nuclear Plant Stopped for `Weeks'

(Bloomberg) -- Vattenfall Europe AG, Germany's
fourth-largest utility, expects the outage at its Kruemmel
nuclear plant, which caught fire on June 28, to last at least
``several more weeks'' as the company carries out repairs.

Vattenfall plans to complete the plant's scheduled annual
maintenance before restarting the reactor, Hamburg-based
spokesman Ivo Banek said by telephone today. The maintenance,
which was scheduled to begin in August, may start sooner because
the plant is already halted, he said.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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