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Just like London’s red bus is synonymous with the town, so are Featherbed boats part of the Knysna estuary — but they have been missing in action.

EDF has decided not to restart the Dungeness B nuclear power plant and instead move it into the defuelling phase with immediate effect. Since September 2018, the plant has been in an extended outage in which EDF has been managing a range of "unique, significant and ongoing" technical challenges that it says are not found at the UK's other six advanced gas-cooled reactor power plants. Although many of these challenges have been overcome, the French-owned company said, new detailed analysis has further highlighted additional station-specific risks within some key components, includ...

The Dungeness B power plant in Kent will shut permanently, seven years earlier than planned, after owner EDF judged it is beyond repair. Dungeness B, one

Article by Adam Duckett The defuelling phase at Dungeness will go into immediate effect THE UK’s Dungeness B nuclear power station will begin decommissioning activities some seven years earlier than expected after investigations discovered problems with components that cannot be replaced. The station, which uses two advanced gas cooled reactors, was shutdown in 2018 for maintenance, inspection, and refuelling. But the operator, EDF, says that problems were discovered with the material conditions of the boilers which are contained within the reactors. It says the investigation found that com...

– PTB, New Hampshire Yes, most do keep a log of the flight time (that is how pilots are often paid), the city pair and the aircraft number.  When flying a large fleet of airplanes, I would not say pilots have a “favorite” per se, but there are some airplanes with handling characteristics that you take note of. As an example, we had a 737 that had been damaged in a hard landing incident many years ago. It flew slightly sideways and require more trimming than the newer airplanes. When you boarded that airplane, it was worth remembering the unique characteristics.  John Cox is a retired ...