While the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) gave its approval to EDF on Monday 2 September for the production of the first electrons from the Flamanville EPR, the company announced a new delay in the commissioning of the reactor. Connection to the electricity grid is now planned by “the end of autumn”while the company had previously expected the end of summer, September 21 at the latest.
“A test program to achieve a power level of 25% will be implemented”level at which the EPR “will be connected to the national electricity grid for the first time and will then produce electricity”a deadline “expected by the end of fall 2024”the group said in a statement.
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During a press briefing, the Deputy Director of the French group’s nuclear production division, Régis Clément, also announced on Monday that “ASN has just given [à EDF] the agreement for [l]e first start » of the EPR of Flammaville.
He also said that there would be an increase in nuclear production in France for the estimated year 2024 – between 340 and 360 TWh, against a range of 315 to 345 TWh initially planned – not including the next production of the Flamanville EPR. “The other 56 reactors are performing better than what we had integrated”argued Régis Clément, so that the production of « l’EPR [de Flamanville] will arrive in addition ».
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