French regulator urges nuclear workers to return to job to prevent power stretch

PARIS (Reuters) - Power regulator RTE requested France's unions to return nuclear reactors to production early on Thursday to prevent tension in supply, the watchdog said in an e-mail.

A strike has reduced nuclear power generation by 3.3 gigawatts (GW) on Thursday morning, data from power group EDF showed. It reduced hydropower output by 610 megawatts (MW).

(Reporting by Tassilo Hummel; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)