Turbine, cooling: these unforeseen events that keep the Flamanville EPR at a standstill.

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Turbine, cooling: these unforeseen events that keep the Flamanville EPR at a standstill.

EDF is extending an unscheduled shutdown of the Flamanville EPR until the end of March in order to make adjustments to the turbine. During its first 100 days of operation, the nuclear reactor will have undergone 76 days of maintenance. By Amélie Laurin, March 6, 2025 EDF had warned: the ramp-up of the Flamanville EPR, the first nuclear reactor to be commissioned in France in twenty-five years, would be very gradual. The public group has once aga…

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The Flamanville reactor will be shut down until the end of March, according to Les Echos. On the first 100 days of commissioning, it will have had 76 days of shutdown. The EPR of Flamanville has accumulated the setbacks. Since its connection to the electricity grid on 21 December 2024, the nuclear unit has experienced multiple shutdowns, programmed or not. The last one, initiated on 15 February, has been extended until 30 March due to unforeseen…