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28/08/2026 – 15:30 GMT+2

The Beznau nuclear power plant in Switzerland, which was shut down multiple times over the last two months due to summer heatwaves, is fully operational again, Swiss energy company Axpo said on Friday.

Axpo said the second reactor at the Beznau plant in northern Switzerland, Europe’s oldest nuclear power plant still in operation, went back online on Thursday.

The heatwaves that hit Europe sent temperatures soaring in the Aare River, which the site uses for cooling.

Reactor 1 has been back in operation since 21 August and Axpo said it had now reconnected the other to the grid, which is “now gradually returning…

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