Second EPR to be Built in France

January 29, 2009
Thursday evening President Sarkozy confirmed a report posted on the Internet site of Figaro shortly before, to the effect that the French government has decided to confide to EDF the construction of a second French European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR) and that it will be built at Penly (Seine-Maritime),

already the location of two 1300 MW pressurized water reactors. GDF Suez, a rival of EDF, will play the role of a minority partner; and, Sarkozy implied, GDF is likely to be put in charge of construction of a third, yet to be announced, EPR. EDF will present a dossier on the project to the National Commission on Public Debates shortly, with an eye to beginning construction in 2012 and putting the new reactor into operation in 2017 (AFP online, January 29, 2009).
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