EDF cuts French nuclear output target on Cruas reactors outage

PARIS (Reuters) - French state-controlled utility EDF on Thursday cut its 2019 nuclear power generation target in France for the second time this year to between 384 terawatt hours (TWH) and 388 TWh from 390 TWh, due to outages at three of its Cruas reactors.Following an earthquake in southern France on Nov. 11, EDF said it was continuing to carry out checks on the reactors at the Cruas power plant with the objective of completing them within a week.The results of the checks on the reactors..