LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - EDF Energy stopped its 620-megawatt Hartlepool 2 nuclear reactor in Britain on Saturday morning for a planned outage, a spokesman said on Monday.

'The unit came offline on Saturday morning for a planned statutory outage,' he said.

The unit's maximum export limit (MEL) stood at zero on Monday, National Grid data showed.

(Reporting by Karolin Schaps; editing by Jason Neely) Keywords: BRITAIN NUCLEAR/HARTLEPOOL

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