EDF faces £1m a day bill to keep French nuclear reactor offline

Prolonged closure at Flamanville plant after fire damage piles further financial pressure on state-owned energy firm

The prolonged closure of a major French atomic reactor after an explosion this month probably costs EDF at least 1m a day, according to experts.

The nuclear plant operator, which will spend 18bn building the UK's first new nuclear power station in a generation, shut unit 1 at its Flamanville plant after a fire broke out in the turbine hall.