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South Africa’s Sole Nuclear-Power Plant Is Down as Unit Trips
A unit at South Africa’s sole nuclear power facility unexpectedly tripped, taking the whole facility offline and further stretching supply to the nation’s already-constrained grid.
Unit 2 at the Koeberg facility in Cape Town “experienced an unplanned, non-technical trip while operating at full capacity,” state-owned utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. said in a statement Sunday. The reactor will reconnect to the national grid within 48 hours, it said.