(Reuters) - EDF Energy, Britain's largest nuclear power producer, restarted its 480-megawatt (MW) Hinkley Point B-8 nuclear reactor on Tuesday evening, the utility said.
"Unit 8 at Hinkley Point B power station returned to service yesterday," a spokeswoman said.
The reactor reconnected to the national power grid just before 2100 GMT on Tuesday, she added.
The unit had switched off automatically on March 27 due to a gas circulator earth fault.
The company's 620-MW Hartlepool 1 nuclear reactor is expected to restart on Friday, after a four-day outage following a turbine valve fault.
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