British Energy shuts down nuclear plant for checks
13th Sep 2005, 04:10 GMT
LONDON (Reuters) - British Energy on Monday shut down its Heysham 1 nuclear power plant in northwest England for at least a month and extended an outage at its Hartlepool plant after checks showed the potential for stress corrosion.
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