Tag: EPR
The Flamanville EPR is further behind schedule
The Electricité de France group (EDF) must once again “Adjust the schedule”. To put it bluntly, the construction of the third-generation EPR nuclear reactor in Flamanville (Manche) will experience further…
Nuclear: EDF announces new delays and additional costs for the Flamanville EPR
Initially scheduled to be put into service in 2012, the new generation EPR nuclear reactor at Flamanville (Manche) has been multiplying the setbacks and additional costs since the start of…
Politics Mélenchon and Jadot denounce the “fiasco” of the EPR and nuclear power
“Shipwreck”, “fiasco” … The presidential candidates Jean-Luc Mélenchon, (La France insoumise) and Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecology the Greens) blasted this Wednesday the new delays and additional costs of the EPR…
New delay and additional costs for the Flamanville EPR, start postponed to 2023
Under construction since 2017, the Flamanville EPR is accumulating disappointments. In a press release on Wednesday, EDF warned of further delays for the new generation EPR nuclear reactor under construction…
EDF: new delay for the Flamanville EPR, the start of which is postponed to 2023
The Covid crisis will again delay the loading of fuel into the plant. The additional cost is estimated at 300 million euros. EDF announced on Wednesday new delays and additional…
Nuclear: the Finnish EPR starts twelve years late
Better late than never After the start-up, overnight from Monday to Tuesday, of the reactor built by the French group Areva, electricity production must begin at around 30% of power…
Anti-omicron turn of the screw in many countries, vaccine pass soon to the Council of Ministers, the Finnish EPR finally on … The news of this Tuesday
In the news The planet is increasing the restrictions on omicron. In turn on Tuesday, many countries announced new measures to counter the spread of the omicron variant. Germany, for…
The French state helps Areva to settle the liabilities of the Finnish EPR
View of the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in Eurajoki (Finland), October 19, 2016. MARTTI KAINULAINEN / AFP New game in the nuclear industry’s financial cap game. The State will acquire,…
After the incident on an EPR nuclear reactor in China, EDF ensures that releases into the air are normal
Taishan nuclear power plant in Guangdong province on December 8, 2013. PETER PARKS / AFP The Taishan nuclear power plant (Guangdong), made up of two EPR-type nuclear reactors and built…