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UTILITY Week 6th March 2015

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20 | 6th - 12th March 2015 | UtILItY WEEK Operations & Assets High viz EDF Energy's Sizewell B nuclear reactor has just celebrated its 20th birthday, having first output electricity to the grid at the end of February 1995. The company estimates that in its lifetime it has saved 117 million tonnes of CO2e, equivalent to taking all pas- senger cars off UK roads for 1.8 years. Three thousand UK companies were involved in its construction and today it takes 550 staff and 250 con- tractors to operate the plant. 20th anniversary of Sizewell B

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