[에너지신문] 04 September 2015 -The French state-owned power utility EDF announced that its third generation power nuclear Flamanville EPR project will not come on stream before 2018. The start of operations has been postponed several times, including the announcement of November 2014 that planned the commercial start-up in 2017.
The EPR (European Pressurised Reactor) project was initially scheduled to feed first power to grid in 2012, five years after the project launch. In addition, EDF announced the cost of the project was raised to €10.5bn, up from the initial budget of €3.3bn.
The EPR (European Pressurised Reactor) is a third-generation reactor with a power generation capacity of 1650 MW. EPRs are also under construction at Olkiluoto 3 in Finland and Taishan 1 and 2 in China. Olkiluoto 3 has been under construction since 2005 and has seen several revisions to its start-up date, which is now expected by 2018. Taishan 1, which has been under construction since 2009, is expected to be commissioned in 2016, while Taishan 2 is scheduled to begin operations a year later. Two further EPRs are planned at Hinkley Point in the UK.