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EDF ready to build new EPRs

2021-11-08T19:13:44.964Z


After ten years of setbacks, the industry says it has regained the level of quality required for this future major project.


While Emmanuel Macron should soon announce an order for six new generation EPR 2 reactors, the French nuclear sector says it has learned the lessons of a dark decade during which it has multiplied the setbacks, between multiple delays on construction sites. 'Finnish and Flamanville EPR, poor workmanship at Framatome, and defective welds.

"The sector is changing and it will be ready,"

assured Monday Alain Tranzer, general delegate for industrial quality and nuclear skills at EDF.

This former of the PSA group was recruited in mid-2020 by the national electrician to pilot the “Excell” plan supposed to bring the French civil nuclear sector up to standard.

An essential step before any new order from the State.

Alain Tranzer made a positive assessment of Excel on Monday.

“This plan is not cosmetics, not Powerpoint, but concrete and field

, he hammered.

The coming year should allow us to consolidate the actions carried out

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Source: lefigaro

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