Tag: EPR
Confirmation: the Flamanville EPR will finally be connected to the electricity network and operational in a few months!
Samir Rahmoune December 22, 2023 at 3:42 p.m. 25 The Flamanville EPR © SIPA / Alexis Morin via Les Echos EDF officially announces for the first time when the Flamanville…
Nuclear: 6 months after its inauguration, the French-designed Finnish EPR shut down following a technical problem…
Samir Rahmoune November 21, 2023 at 12:46 p.m. 18 The Finnish Olkiluoto nuclear power plant © Wikipedia The operator of the Finnish EPR has just announced the discovery of a…
“The “small” nuclear power plant is not immune to the setbacks of the “big” ones, like the French EPR”
Eme on the nuclear planet. While a good part of the future of this very low-carbon technology rests on the development of a new generation of small modular reactors, or…
Inauguration of the Finnish EPR: the hope of finally arriving there in France is reborn
Samir Rahmoune October 4, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. 9 The 20-year-old project has finally come to fruition with our Finnish partners, with the commissioning of the EPR Olkiluoto 3 nuclear…
EDF CONFIRMS THAT THE INVESTMENT TO BUILD 6 NEW EPR IS OF AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE OF 51 MDSE
Published on 02/28/2023 at 4:47 p.m. EDF-THE CEO CONFIRMS THAT THE INVESTMENT TO BUILD SIX NEW EPR IS OF AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE…
Nuclear: Six months and 500 ME more for the Flamanville EPR
PARIS (Reuters) – EDF announced on Friday an additional delay and additional cost for the Flamanville (Manche) EPR-type nuclear reactor project, now estimated at 13.2 billion euros for start-up scheduled…
The new delay of the EPR of Flamanville could accentuate the tensions on the supply of electricity in the winter of 2023-2024
Umpteenth blow, umpteenth delay. While trying to revive its nuclear fleet, whose production is at its lowest, EDF announced on Friday December 16 that it was still postponing the commissioning…
New delay for the Flamanville EPR, in full revival of the atom
The chimney of a third-generation EPR nuclear reactor, on June 14, 2022 in Flamanville, in the Manche department (AFP/Archives/Sameer Al-DOUMY) The Flamanville EPR (Manche) will be another six months late…
in the United Kingdom, the government and EDF agree to develop a new EPR
Last-minute delays had accumulated for two months across the Channel, and the political instability that prevailed in the country did not help. However, an agreement seems to have been reached…
the endless saga of the Finnish EPR Olkiluoto 3
Good things come to those who wait for. And, in the case of the Finnish EPR, we had to wait a long time. Very long. So much so that it…
After (very) long delays, the Finnish EPR launched in the midst of a crisis
Since the end of September, the reactor has been running at maximum capacity. It should definitely enter service in December. SourceAFP The EPR alone can produce 20% of Finland’s national…
The Finnish EPR is finally producing at full power
The Olkiluoto reactor is the third EPR to enter service in the world, after those made in China, in Taishan. This time it’s the right one. The Finnish nuclear reactor…