EPR, to the dregs for EDF and Areva?

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by Remundo » 17/04/15, 10:40

yeah it's true that in the negotiations, EDF, or indirectly its henchmen, would be tempted to sack AREVA, but finally as it would be a question of merging the groups a little, EDF has no interest in indebting / drowning a little more " the bride"....

there must be a mix of chaos, incompetence and lobbies in all of this ...
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by Did67 » 17/04/15, 11:55

Except for one nuance: it's a forced marriage ...

So EdF has every interest in shouting out loud that she is really naughty, which justifies in advance where the divorce, or the marriage will collapse, or the "in-laws" will pay dearly, etc ...

Because at the end, if ASN persists, there will be a sacred slate!

So the BA BA in management is to prepare the "I told you that we would be happy! It's not my fault !!!" when it comes to making all consumers pay! Or when the market value plunges!
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by moinsdewatt » 21/01/17, 14:02

Why Areva can blow ... while waiting for the Flamanville mortgage

the 10.01.2017

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Now there is the Flamanville mortgage. The decision to authorize the Norman EPR tank, which contains too much carbon segregation, depends on ASN. Last November, Xavier Ursat, EDF's executive director of engineering, indicated in a somewhat diplomatic way that he did not envisage the possibility of a rejection of the Authority. “We are not in this scenario. We have never performed as many tests as for this tank. And ASN validated our program. There can be no surprises. ”ASN is now under pressure. We would not like to be in the place of its president Pierre-Franck Chevet. Whatever opinion he gives in the coming months, he will be under fire from critics. The future of the first French EPR will depend on its decision. But beyond that of the British EPRs at Hinkley Point (which depend on the successful launch of Flamanville) and ultimately the entire French nuclear industry.

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by Flytox » 21/01/17, 23:07

Now there is the Flamanville mortgage. The decision to authorize the tank of the Norman EPR which conceals too much carbon segregation depends on ASN. Last November, Xavier Ursat, EDF's executive director of engineering, indicated in a somewhat diplomatic way that he did not envisage the possibility of a rejection of the Authority. “We are not in this scenario. We have never performed as many tests as for this tank. And ASN validated our program. There can be no surprises. ”ASN is now under pressure. We would not like to be in the place of its president Pierre-Franck Chevet. Whatever opinion he gives in the coming months, he will be under fire from critics. The future of the first French EPR will depend on its decision. But beyond that of the British EPRs at Hinkley Point (which depend on the successful launch of Flamanville) and ultimately the entire French nuclear industry.


We can multiply the tests endlessly, this increases the knowledge of the detected nonconformity but it does not make the part compliant ...
ASN has validated the test program, that is one thing, but it has not yet validated the result of whether the part is compliant or not.
"There can be no surprise", should you understand that whatever the result of the tests, ASN will have to comply with the goodwill of EDF?
What is ASN for ???????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????? : Evil: : Evil: : Evil:
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by moinsdewatt » 25/02/17, 13:57

In China, things are moving forward:

The first EPR in Taishan could start this year.

The 24 / 01 / 2017

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The first of the two EPR reactors that EDF is building in Taishan will be connected to the network this year. - Photo FactWire / Newscom / Sipa
Learn more about http://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-servic ... uF7bQge.99




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by ENERC » 26/02/17, 19:48

The problem with the Flamanville EPR is not whether it will work, but whether it will explode sooner or later.
In China, we take fewer precautions. See the impressive number of industrial accidents.
So yes, the EPR can start in France, but with what probability of accident. The whole question is there.
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by moinsdewatt » 18/03/17, 14:10

Flamanville EPR: trial phase launched, commercial operation in 2019

AFP released the 16 March 2017

The public electrician EDF announced Thursday that it has started the phase of the overall testing of the EPR type nuclear reactor under construction in Flamanville (Manche), prior to its confirmed start-up for the end of 2018, before it goes into commercial service in 2019.

"These tests, which will last until the last quarter of 2018, will make it possible to verify and test the operation of all the circuits of the EPR", explained the group in a press release. "They will mobilize more than 1 experienced engineers and technicians from EDF and industrial partners," he added.

The tests begin with "tank flushing" operations, namely rinsing the circuits by circulating water at a very high rate, until next summer. The so-called "cold" tests will then follow with the test of the functionality of the equipment. At the end of these tests, the fuel can be loaded and the reactor will be started up at the end of the fourth quarter of 2018, more than six years late and an initial budget more than tripled to 10,5 billion euros.

After start-up, the coupling of the EPR to the electricity grid for its commercial commissioning will take place during the second quarter of 2019 before it reaches its full power of 1 megawatts (MW) in the fourth quarter of 650, according to the roadmap recalled by EDF when presenting its annual results in February. "The year 2019 will allow the coupling to the network and the rise to 2019% of the power of the reactor", confirmed a spokesperson for EDF to AFP.

Campaign promise by President François Hollande, who first set it at the end of 2016, the closure of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant (Haut-Rhin) is conditional on this commissioning of the EPR, the energy transition law indeed capping nuclear generation capacities at their current level of 63,2 gigawatts (GW).


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by Did67 » 18/03/17, 15:45

moinsdewatt wrote:
Campaign promise by President François Hollande, who first set it at the end of 2016, the closure of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant (Haut-Rhin) is conditional on this commissioning of the EPR, the energy transition law indeed capping nuclear generation capacities at their current level of 63,2 gigawatts (GW).


Note that the semantic shift which no longer surprises anyone: if the energy transition law makes it somewhat compulsory to stop Fessenheim (or another power station) when the EPR starts, so as not to exceed the share of There was nothing to stop Fessenheim when the EPR had not started. Since we were staying below the threshold!

These sentences are therefore half-deceptions, to hide that on the side of the government we were not able to impose the closure on EdF after having announced it and that on the side of EdF, obviously, we did not prepare no alternative, except EPR ...

It remains that we are taken for cons ...

It remains, I take this opportunity to remind you, that it would be enough for each of us to reduce our consumption by 25% (I made it comfortable over a dozen years without returning to the candle - and the computer from which I write is not pedal!) so that EdF automatically closes 4 or 5 sections, which have become useless and therefore unprofitable (if the current is only sold at the European spot market price, no power plant is profitable!). Then one more effort, each ...
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by moinsdewatt » 19/03/17, 14:59

There is no need to close Fessenheim. I hope that the next government after the elections will do the right thing to cancel this decision.
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by moinsdewatt » 19/03/17, 15:01

Did67 wrote:...... (if the current only sells at the European spot market price, no power plant is profitable!).
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Well, the spot market sees only a very small share of electricity supplies.

The bulk is traded on long term contracts and is not in the spot market. For example most of the current of industrialists.
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