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More delays, more cost blowouts for France’s “new generation” nuclear plant

The reactor has already faced repeated delays and run billions of euros over budget…….

France delays new generation nuclear plant, News Tribune, July 21, 2011 – Tacoma, WA, PARIS — France’s electricity giant announced Wednesday it is delaying its new generation nuclear reactor for two years after a pair of deadly accidents and safety reviews prompted by the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.

France’s electricity giant announced Wednesday it is delaying its new generation nuclear reactor for two years after a pair of deadly accidents and safety reviews prompted by the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-i

The setback to the showcase EPR reactor in Flamanville in western France hits a country that is one of the world’s loudest proponents of nuclear energy, at a time when some governments are rethinking their commitment to atomic power in the wake of Japan’s lingering troubles.

Electricite de France, the world’s largest nuclear plant operator, says the reactor at Flamanville will go online in 2016 instead of 2014, and will cost some euro6 billion ($8.5 billion)overall instead of the euro5 billion earlier estimated.

The EPR, or European Pressurized Reactor, has been decades in the making. The first one, being built by French manufacturer Areva, is under construction in Olkiluoto, Finland. It, too, has been plagued by delays. Others are planned in China, Britain and the United States.

The reactor has already faced repeated delays and run billions of euros over budget…….

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/07/20/1751898/france-delays-new-generation-nuclear.html

July 21, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, France