The core of the Flamanville EPR reactor will be completely rebuilt.

Good news: the EPR of Flamanville 3 has reinjected its first megawatts into the national electricity grid. But behind this announcement made by EDF on 19 April 2025, caution remains to be exercised. A reconnection under surveillance before the full power of the EPR of Flamanville On Saturday 19 April 2025, at 8:30 p.m., EDF reconnected the EPR reactor in Flamanville 3, injecting a first power of 90 megawatts, or about 5.5% of the nominal capacit…

The EPR reactor at the Flamanville nuclear power plant was restarted and connected to the national electricity grid on Saturday 19 April 2025. EPR Flamanville: a restart and a connection to the national grid On Saturday 19 April 2025, at 8:30 p.m., the EPR (European pressurized reactor) of Flamanville 3, located in the Department of the Channel, was finally reconnected to the national electricity grid, two days ahead. It was exactly two months a…

On Monday evening, energy workers connected the second unit to the Temelín nuclear power plant's transmission network and it is producing electricity again after a planned interruption. The unit had not produced electricity for five days.

The core of the Flamanville EPR reactor will be completely rebuilt.

To prevent potential fuel rod leakage problems, EDF has decided to completelyrebuild the core of the Flamanville EPR reactor (Manche). This decision isbased on feedback from the Taishan reactor in China, which experiencedsimilar problems during the second production cycle. As the Flamanville EPRprepares to be reconnected to the electricity grid on Monday, April 21,2025 , after more than two months of shutdown, EDF has also announced thefuture ch…