Tag: Flamanville
Flamanville EPR: EDF says it is confident about the schedule but the margins are low
The site is already 11 years behind schedule and its estimated cost has risen to 12.7 billion against 3.3 billion initially planned. EDF posted on Monday its “trust» in the…
Intrusion on the Flamanville EPR reactor site, seven Greenpeace activists arrested
Seven activists, including the director general of Greenpeace France Jean-François Julliard, managed to enter the site and unfurl a banner proclaiming “Nuclear: Macron irresponsible” near the reactor under construction. Others…
In Flamanville, the cumulative delays of the EPR is an economic “bargain”
The Flamanville site, in the Manche department, on January 18, 2022 (AFP/Archives/Sameer Al-DOUMY) “We are not going to spit in the soup”: in Flamanville (Manche) the 11 years of cumulative…
EDF raises the cost of the Flamanville EPR to 12.7 billion euros after another delay
(Update: comments from the EDF Executive Director in charge of the Engineering and New Nuclear Projects Department on the Flamanville EPR, as well as the situation at Civaux, Chooz and…
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…
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…