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EDF vows to connect French EPR in “summer 2024”
EDF plans to connect new-generation nuclear power reactor in Flamanville to the national grid in the summer of 2024, suggesting a further slight delay in the start-up schedule, the French utility said late on Wednesday.
read more... 28/03/2024
Inspection failure set to delay vital fuel loading at Flamanville
Delaying the start of fuel loading, which requires French nuclear safety authority ASN authorisation, would almost certainly lead to a delay in starting the 1.6 GW reactor, which is due to go into commercial service by June.
read more... 11/03/2024
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EDF finds indications of possible corrosion on 4 reactors
EDF has said it found indications of possible stress corrosion on the auxiliary circuits of four French nuclear power reactors totalling 4.8 GW in capacity, namely Chinon 3, Cattenom 3, Flamanville 2 and Golfech 1.
read more... 20/04/2022
EDF announces new delay and higher costs for Flamanville 3 reactor
France's Flamanville 3 reactor will cost 300 million euros more than forecast and fuel loading is being pushed back by up to six months, EDF said on Wednesday, in the latest setback for a project already running more than a decade late.
read more... 13/01/2022
EDF plans to announce new EPR nuclear reactor by mid-2021
EDF has faced costly delays in the construction of some plants, including its Flamanville 3 nuclear project in France which is more than a decade behind schedule
read more... 16/10/2020