Tag: EPR
EDF will connect the Flamanville EPR to the electricity network this summer
It will be an event. After twelve years of delay and a bill that quadrupled compared to the initial budget, at 13.2 billion euros, the Flamanville EPR nuclear reactor will…
Delay and additional cost of 7 to 9.3 billion euros for the EPR of the Hinkley Point power station
The commissioning of the first EPR nuclear reactor at the Hinkley Point C power station in England has been postponed by at least two years, or even four years, for…
France must go “beyond” six new EPR reactors, declares Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher
Welcome Company Nuclear In a project to revive nuclear power, the government is carrying out a program for six new EPR reactors and eight as options. Published on 01/07/2024 08:39…
Agnès Pannier-Runacher believes that France will have to go “beyond the first six EPRs”
For Agnès Pannier-Runacher, we will have to do more in the nuclear revival strategy. In an interview with the Tribune Sundaya few weeks before the presentation of the bill relating…
Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher advocates an increase in the number of EPR reactors
The Cattenom nuclear power plant (Moselle), June 13, 2023. YVES HERMAN / REUTERS A few weeks before the presentation of the bill relating to energy sovereignty, the executive is marking…
The EPR reactor finally in service
After years of delay, an EPR nuclear reactor of Franco-German design was put into service this Sunday in Finland, making it possible to cover around 15% of electricity consumption there,…
China returns to service an EPR reactor, a year after an incident
An EPR reactor at the Taishan nuclear power plant in southern China is back in operation more than a year after it was shut down for a sealing problem, its…
Greenpeace activists arrested after an intrusion on the EPR site in Flamanville
Seven Greenpeace activists were arrested early Thursday after breaking into the EPR reactor site in Flamanville (Manche). Their objective ? Denounce the “irresponsibility” of pro-nuclear presidential candidates. Chained activists Since…
Emmanuel Macron in Belfort this Thursday to announce the construction of new EPR type reactors?
Emmanuel Macron will be at Belfort this Thursday for a trip devoted to the French energy strategy, announces the Elysée this Tuesday afternoon. On this occasion, the Head of State,…
EDF: new delay and additional costs for the Flamanville EPR, start-up postponed to 2023 – 12/01/2022 at 09:51
General view of the construction site of the EPR-type nuclear power plant in Flamanville, in Manche, November 16, 2016 (AFP / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU) EDF announced on Wednesday new delays and…