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The French government has announced that the existing Bugey nuclear power plant near Lyon will be the basis for two new EPR reactors. Last year, President Emmanuel Macron’s government said the country could load more than a dozen new reactors into the country’s combined force. In the coming years.
Agnès Pannier-Runacher, France’s minister of force transition, said Bugey selected because it was “readyr” for the initial structure than Tricastin, another planned site for the reactors. French officials said nuclear force is a vital component of the country’s structure. efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
The selection of the Bugey site was announced after a July 19 assembly of the country’s Macron-led Nuclear Policy Council. This follows earlier announcements that two reactors would be installed at Penly, on the Normandy coast, and at Gravelines, located between Dunkirk and Calais. the reactors designed as EPR design, or European Pressurized Reactor, in this case known as EPR2.
The EPR2, evolved through EDF and Framatome, is a simplified EPR reactor design. EDF officials said the reactor would incorporate the design, structure and commissioning experience derived from the EPR reactor. The design would also take into account the operational experience of the reactors recently in operation.
In early 2022, Macron said the time had come for France to build more reactors in a country that has long relied on nuclear power for maximum electricity. France has 56 operating reactors, according to the U. S. Energy Information Administration. The United States, which has more than 90 reactors in commercial operation.
Macron said in February last year that operating licenses would be extended for all existing reactors in France, provided protection was not compromised, and unveiled at the time a proposal for six new EPR2 reactors. This proposal also included an option for 8 more EPR2 reactors. to be built in the coming years.
France’s Court of Accounts said EDF will have to secure financing and profitability of the EPR2 reactor before starting the structure of such assemblies in the country. In May 2021, EDF submitted its proposal to build the EPR2 to the French authorities.
The AFN, after its assembly last week, said the Bugey site was selected “with the approval of local elected officials,” and said that means “the location of the first phase of the EPR2 structure program is now determined,” following Penly’s earlier announcements. and Gravelines.
The Bugey plant now has four 900 MW pressurized water reactors, called sets 2, 3, four and 5, which became operational in 1978 and 1979. Bugey Unit 1, a gas-cooled reactor connected to the grid in 1972, closed in 199four.
A government official said, “Technical studies and analyses will continue at the Tricastin site with a view to hosting long-duration nuclear reactors,” which are likely to be the first two of the next 8 defined in the government’s nuclear program.
In a statement, EDF said it “participated in the mandatory authorization procedures to release the structure of the first pair of EPR2 reactors at Penly, as well as in the administrative procedures for its realization and connection to the electric power grid. “EDF said it plans to begin the first paintings of structures at Penly until mid-2024.
—Darrell Proctor is deputy editor of POWER (@POWERmagazine).
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