Cracks at U.K. Nuclear Plant 'No Threat'

GALWAY, IRELAND--October 8, 2014 --Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) EDF Energy (London, England) is playing down fears that cracks found in some graphite bricks at its Hunterston B nuclear power plant in the U.K. pose any safety risk to the public.

During a major planned service and maintenance operation cracks were found in a couple of the 6,000 bricks that make up one of the two reactors at Hunterston B, located in North Ayrshire, Scotland.