According to press releases from the (ASN), Unit 2 of the in  shut down Thursday afternoon after operators were alerted to "small quantities of burning oil." The plant is operated by (EDF). Emergency crews were dispatched to the 1,330-megawatt French reactor following an alarm triggered there at 11:20 UTC Thursday. According to EDF, there were "no consequences for the environment" and no one was injured. The ASN said in a statement the anomaly had been provisionally placed at level 1 on the , which ranks occurrences at nuclear power plants on a scale ranging from 1 to 7, with 7 representing an event with lasting consequences for health and the environment such as the following a in in March 2011. The Penly nuclear site, located on the coast to the northwest of  , is home to two (PWR) units and is cooled using water from the English Channel. PWRs are a common variety of nuclear reactors named for their use of highly pressurized water in their primary cooling systems. All of the 58 nuclear power plants which supply France with over 75\% of its energy, are of this type.
According to press releases from the (ASN), Unit 2 of the in France shut down Thursday afternoon after operators were alerted to "small quantities of burning oil." The plant is operated by (EDF). Emergency crews were dispatched to the 1,330-megawatt French reactor following an alarm triggered there at 11:20 UTC Thursday. According to EDF, there were "no consequences for the environment" and no one was injured. The ASN said in a statement the anomaly had been provisionally placed at level 1 on the , which ranks occurrences at nuclear power plants on a scale ranging from 1 to 7, with 7 representing an event with lasting consequences for health and the environment such as the Fukushima Daiichi disaster following a Tsunami in Japan in March 2011. The Penly nuclear site, located on the coast to the northwest of Paris , is home to two (PWR) units and is cooled using water from the English Channel. PWRs are a common variety of nuclear reactors named for their use of highly pressurized water in their primary cooling systems. All of the 58 nuclear power plants which supply France with over 75\% of its energy, are of this type.
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