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EDF and the sector ready to respond to an order for six EPRs

2021-10-25T19:26:13.765Z


The delays on the Flamanville site, as well as the urgency to decide on a nuclear relaunch, should push the president to order three pairs of EPR 2 in the coming weeks.


This must be the order that is relaunching the French nuclear industry.

EDF has been preparing for many months to receive the green light from the State for the construction of six new generation EPR 2 reactors. This is an improved model of the Flamanville EPR and that of Hinkley Point, in under construction in UK.

The industry is said to be on the starting blocks.

"We are just waiting for a structuring political decision to launch a program to build new EPR 2s,"

says Cécile Arbouille, general delegate of Gifen, the professional atomic federation.

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A very detailed technical and financial file was sent to the State services this summer.

The president said he wanted to wait for the Flamanville EPR to be started before ordering new EPRs.

But the repeated delays on this site, as well as the urgent need to decide on a nuclear revival,

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Source: lefigaro

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