| Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant | |
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| Official name | Centrale Nucléaire de Flamanville |
| Country | France |
| Location | Flamanville, Manche, Normandy |
| Coordinates | 49°32′11″N 1°52′54″W / 49.53639°N 1.88167°W |
| Status | Units 1-2: Operational Unit 3: Under construction |
| Construction began | Unit 1: 1 December 1979 Unit 2: 1 May 1980 Unit 3: 3 December 2007 |
| Commission date | Unit 1: 1 December 1986 Unit 2: 9 March 1987 Unit 3: 2024 (scheduled) |
| Owner | EDF |
| Operator | EDF |
| Nuclear power station | |
| Reactor type | PWR |
| Reactor supplier | Framatome |
| Cooling source | English Channel |
| Thermal capacity | 2 × 3817 MWth |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 2 × 1330 MW |
| Make and model | Units 1–2: P4 REP 1300 Unit 3: EPR |
| Units under const. | 1 × 1600 MW EPR |
| Nameplate capacity | 2660 MW |
| Capacity factor | 60.08% (2017) 70.55% (lifetime) |
| Annual net output | 13,999 GWh (2017) |
| External links | |
| Website | Centrale nucléaire de Flamanville [1] |
| Commons | Related media on Commons |
The Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant is located at Flamanville, Manche, France on the Cotentin Peninsula. The power plant houses two pressurized water reactors (PWRs) that produce 1.3 GWe each and came into service in 1986 and 1987, respectively. It produced 18.9 TWh in 2005, which amounted to 4% of the electricity production in France. In 2006 this figure was about 3.3%. At the time, there were 671 workers regularly working at the plant.
A third reactor at the site, an EPR unit, began construction in 2007 with its commercial introduction scheduled for 2012. As of 2020[update] the project was more than five times over budget and years behind schedule. Various safety problems have been raised, including weakness in the steel used in the reactor.[1] In July 2019, further delays were announced, pushing back the commercial introduction date to the end of 2022.[2][3] In January 2022, more delays were announced, with fuel loading continuing until mid-2023,[4][5] and again in December 2022, delaying fuel loading to early 2024.[6] Fuel loading was completed in May 2024[7] and the launch of the reactor was declared "imminent" in late July 2024,[8] eventually starting up in early September 2024.[9]
- ^ Jennifer Rankin. Flamanville: France's beleaguered forerunner to Hinkley Point C, The Guardian, 27 July 2016.
- ^ "Snag-hit new French nuclear power station delayed by further 3 years". Agence France Presse. 29 July 2019.
- ^ "EDF warns of added costs of Flamanville EPR weld repairs". World Nuclear News. 9 October 2019.
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- ^ "Launch of delayed Flamanville reactor imminent – EDF". Montel News. 26 July 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "France's newest nuclear reactor shuts itself down". France 24. 5 September 2024. Retrieved 5 September 2024.