EDF shuts down Golftech nuclear plant due to high river temperature
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on June 30, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on June 30, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
EDF shuts down Golftech nuclear reactor as Garonne river temperatures rise, impacting cooling water supply. The second unit is under maintenance.
PARIS (Reuters) -French utility EDF said it shut down the No. 1 reactor at the Golftech nuclear power plant in southwestern France late on Sunday, ahead of an anticipated rise in the temperature of the Garonne river that supplies the plant's cooling water.
The company is required to modify production when the average daily temperature of the Garonne downstream of the plant exceeds 28 degrees Celsius.
The second unit at the plant was already shut for maintenance, EDF added in a statement on its website on Monday.
(Reporting by Dominique Patton and Benjamin Mallet; Editing by Susan Fenton)
EDF shut down the No. 1 reactor at the Golftech nuclear power plant due to an anticipated rise in the temperature of the Garonne river, which exceeds the regulatory limit.
The company is required to modify production when the average daily temperature of the Garonne downstream of the plant exceeds 28 degrees Celsius.
No, the second unit at the plant was already shut down for maintenance prior to the shutdown of the No. 1 reactor.
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