Belgium's Tihange 2 nuclear unit to restart on June 15-Electrabel

Belgium's Tihange 2 nuclear reactor should restart on Wednesday following an outage caused by a minor fault, a spokeswoman for operator Electrabel said.

The reactor was shut automatically on Friday because an electric motor in a non-nuclear part of it broke down.

In an emailed statement on Saturday, spokeswoman Anne-Sophie Huge said the problem was relatively simple and she estimated the unit would be back online on June 15.

Electrabel, the Belgian arm of French group Engie, operates seven nuclear reactors in Belgium with a total capacity of some 6,000 megawatts, covering about 55 percent of the nation's electricity consumption.

(Reporting by Barbara Lewis; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)