Soon the return to normal for EDF?
A wage agreement has been reached between the group's management and the unions of employees of the power plants on strike.
When this agreement was announced, which still needs to be ratified by the trade unions and be submitted for consultation with the staff, the employees of the Gravelines nuclear power plant (North), the most powerful in Western Europe, voted on Friday to suspend their strike action until Monday.
Several power plants had been experiencing strikes for weeks for a salary increase, likely to cause delays in the work prior to the restart of certain reactors.
Social movements can "have an impact on the schedule for the return to production of certain reactors", indicated last week a spokesperson for the group.
"For reactors in production, this can result in temporary power cuts," she added.
EDF thus updated last week, on its site, the date of restart of several reactors, without however saying to what extent these delays were linked to the social movement: Cattenom 1, Cruas 2 and 3, Saint-Alban 2 and Tricastin 3. These delays range from one day to nearly three weeks depending on the reactor.
