French utility EDF has announced a further one-year delay in the construction schedule for the Flamanville 3 EPR. The plant, which began construction in 2005, is now expected to start up in 2017. EDF said that the revisions to the schedule were the result of ‘difficulties’ encountered by ...
Unlike the contract for the nuclear island, which earlier went to the Areva Group, these contracts went through an international tendering competition. EdF puts the total cost of Flamanville-3 at ?3.3 billion ($4.2 billion), with startup planned for 2012.Gamini SeneviratneNuclear News...