Pierre Moscovici, the new president of the Court of Auditors, knows how to handle understatement. In presenting the report of the Court of Auditors on the EPR sector, he explained that he did not wish "to dwell too long" on the " significant delays encountered by the site and the very significant additional costs compared to the initial forecasts" . The figures, however, make you dizzy. The first French copy of an EPR (pressurized water nuclear reactor) located in Flamanville, in the English Channel, was to be operational in 2012. It is not yet operational. Today, the Court of Auditors estimates that it should be in mid-2023. And the forecast cost has been multiplied by three, from 3.8 to 12.4 billion euros, with seven revaluations between 2007 and 2019!
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The Court of Auditors has analyzed the causes of this sinking. They are multiple. First of all historic. The EPR is a Franco-German project launched in 1989. Except that Germany withdrew in 1998, after the entry of the Greens into the
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