The construction of the reactors should start at the end of 2027, according to the energy company.
At the time of changing CEO – Luc Rémont to replace Jean-Bernard Lévy by the end of the month – EDF faces a double challenge. The group must prevent France from having too many cuts this winter, on the one hand. On the other hand, it must prepare to honor the future order for 6 EPR 2 reactors announced by Emmanuel Macron at the start of the year.
With regard to this last project, EDF intends to start the construction site in Penly (Seine-Maritime) from 2024, after the approval by Parliament of the multi-annual energy and climate program which will ratify the public order for EPR 2 This was indicated on Tuesday by Gabriel Oblin, in charge of the project at EDF. It is a question of carrying out the casting of the “first concrete” before the end of 2027. The deadline is very political. It is a question of notching the new nuclear program before the next presidential election, the civil atom not being unanimous among the political parties. In 2029, said Gabriel Oblin, 7,500 people should…
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