It said the approach is designed to ensure a safe start-up, without any potential secondary issues.
“Clean-up operations are progressing at a pace in different areas — the first three phases include the establishment of temporary utilities at the plant, cleaning up and then powering up the machinery. “Once the trial power-up stage is reached, certain areas of the facility will then be able to move to phase 4, which involves an accurate assessment and equipment check.”
CEO and president Andrew Kirby said: “It is only once we commence with this phase that we will be able to adequately judge the realistic lead time to resume production. “As you can imagine, there will be a mountain of repairs to be made along with many parts that will need to be ordered. It would therefore be irresponsible of us to call a start-up date until we have the full picture. We anticipate firming up dates within the next week.”TimesLIVE