The more than 50-year-old Swiss nuclear power plant Beznau, located near the German border, has shut down its second reactor due to the high temperatures. The shutdown has nothing to do with the ...

The Beznau Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland, built along the Aare River near the country’s northern border, followed suit, shutting down one of its reactors on Tuesday and the other on Wednesday.

The Beznau nuclear power plant's reactors are located directly on the River Aare, where temperatures have reached 25 degrees Celsius in recent days, ...

These were the Golfech Nuclear Power Plant in France and the Beznau Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland. One challenge is that the hot weather then causes the problem of not getting any cooler.

“Due to the high river water temperatures, Axpo has been increasingly reducing the output of the two reactor units at the Beznau nuclear power plant for days,” the company said in a statement ...

The Beznau nuclear power plant's reactors are located directly on the River Aare, where temperatures have reached 25 degrees Celsius in recent days, ...