Tag: EPRs
EDF is reassessing the cost of its future EPRs by 30%, according to Les Echos
Published on 03/04/2024 at 6:52 p.m. Photo credit © Reuters PARIS (Reuters) – EDF has significantly…
Edf: EDF reassesses the cost of its future EPRs by 30%, according to Les Echos
PARIS (Reuters) – EDF has significantly increased the cost of its program to build six new EPR2 nuclear reactors, the newspaper Les Echos reported on Monday, citing new estimates from…
Edf: At least two years and £5 billion more for the Hinkley Point EPRs
PARIS (Reuters) – The construction of the two EPR nuclear reactors at the British Hinkley Point C power station is further delayed by at least two years and an additional…
Macron will announce the main axes for the next 8 EPRs in the summer
President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday evening that he would announce “from the summer the main axes for the next eight” EPR, as part of the relaunch of nuclear power, after…
New Penly EPRs: EDF called to review the environmental impact study
The CEO of Electricité de France, Luc Remont, at the Penly nuclear power plant in Petit-Caux, on the Channel coast, December 9, 2022 (AFP/Lou BENOIST) The Environmental Authority recommended that…
Nuclear: EDF aims for mid-2024 to launch the preparatory work for the Penly EPRs
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…
EDF: New delay and new additional cost for the Hinkley Point EPRs
PARIS (Reuters) – Construction of the two EPR nuclear reactors at Britain’s Hinkley Point power plant will be delayed by more than a year and its overall cost will increase…
Edf: New delay and new additional cost for the Hinkley Point EPRs
PARIS (Reuters) – Construction of the two EPR nuclear reactors at Britain’s Hinkley Point power plant will be delayed by more than a year and its overall cost will increase…
France could commit to supporting the construction of more than six EPRs
PARIS (Agefi-Dow Jones)–The French state could support the construction of more EPR-type nuclear reactors than the six currently proposed by EDF, the newspaper Les Echos reported on Wednesday, citing a…
Nuclear: would the construction of six new EPRs be “insufficient”?
THE CHEKING PROCESS – “It’s a start, it would take three times more,” said the president of the Energy Regulation Commission, Jean-François Carenco. THE QUESTION. Do public authorities lack ambition…
Across the world, EPRs are curing their setbacks
Twelve years late, a new generation reactor started up on Tuesday in Finland. Half of the EPRs ordered worldwide are now in operation, not without incidents. The other sites continue…