EDF plans that the Flamanville EPR will inject electricity into the national network for the first time “in the summer of 2024’ If the start-up is confirmed, it will therefore take place twelve years behind the planned schedule. In December, the operator was counting on a connection "mid-2024", until the announcement on Tuesday by the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN, nuclear watchdog) Fuel loading was postponed to mid-April until better.
“This new stage of the procedure now makes it possible to envisage the first loading of nuclear fuel into the reactor within a few weeks,” says EDF.