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by moinsdewatt » 09/12/17, 13:54

EDF confirms considering a shutdown of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant at the end of 2018

AFP published on 08 Dec 2017

The Fessenheim nuclear power plant (Haut-Rhin) should shut down definitively at the very end of 2018, according to data published Friday by the electrician, confirming what the group was already considering, which recalls that this shutdown is notably conditioned by start of the Flamanville EPR.

EDF plans to shutdown for good the two reactors of the dean of the French power plants on December 31 at midnight, according to these data published on the site of the manager of the electricity transmission network RTE in order to respect the rules of information for market players. This information is regularly updated and the electrician also recalls that this closure is subject to two conditions, as agreed with the State at the start of the year.

It will have to coincide with the start-up of the EPR at Flamanville (Manche) whose capacity is comparable to that of the two Fessenheim reactors (around 1 megawatts), and on the other hand, that it will be necessary to limit the French nuclear fleet at its current power level, ie 600 gigawatts.

At the beginning of October, EDF had indicated that the Flamanville EPR would be started at the end of 2018, for commercial commissioning in 2019. The obligation to respect the current nuclear fleet ceiling is a requirement of the energy transition law passed in 2015 .

To start the Fessenheim shutdown process, EDF must send six months before the scheduled date a request to revoke the authorization to operate the two reactors on the site. Currently, only one of the two reactors is in operation. Reactor number 2 has been shutdown since June 2016 for verifications as part of the irregularities detected at the Creusot Forge factory in Areva. EDF plans to restart it on March 15, 2018.

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by Christophe » 09/12/17, 20:35

I also "confirm consider" less believe press releases in 2018 : Mrgreen: : Mrgreen:

This formula smells of whirlwind ...
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by Remundo » 09/12/17, 23:03

you should confirm to consider thinking about it! : Mrgreen:
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by Christophe » 09/12/17, 23:37

Ah yeah even better ... you should offer the formula to the press service of edf ... you know those who are paid roughly 500 € the word they lay.

So "confirm to consider thinking about it" is a formula at 2000 € at the edf press rate ... : Mrgreen:
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by Did67 » 10/12/17, 09:24

AND "confirm consider ...." certainly, but be careful "provided that the EPR starts and the government does not change the law" ...

[PS: that said, I think that it is seriously considered: it did not escape you that for the first time, the consumption of electricity decreases, that the ASR asked for important works on Fessenheim and that one of the reactors over there is affected by AReva's non-compliance issues; this may be a lot for an EdF indebted to the cost, whose share price is falling - watch the sharp drop in early November then the price over 5 years! This is enough to start "restructuring", thus throwing off the "lame ducks"; it is therefore completely conventional economics: on the one hand, in Flamanville, bills and debt are running - we have to make money as quickly as possible; impossible to reverse; so if on the other hand, we can avoid too much "re-typing" this old cuckoo clock from Fessenheim whose repairs are expensive, that can help; and if in addition, we can negotiate compensation with the State, or even subsidies to make it the "French experimental center for dismantling reactors of this generation", etc. etc. Never take capitalists for anything but idiots!]
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by Ahmed » 10/12/17, 10:53

... for an EdF in debt until cost

Pretty shell, with a pun intended! :D :D
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by Did67 » 10/12/17, 15:15

The reality is that the coffee had not yet acted enough! It was involuntary. But we will leave!
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by Christophe » 11/12/17, 02:20

Among the lame ducks of EdF to be released to avoid bankruptcy we can point out the executives paid € 100 or more per year as well as the large privileges of the overpaid EdF (the CE of EDF is the first property owner in France. ..if yes ... after the state of course ...)

Quite disgusting for the rest of the French ... should stop resting on the laurels of the glorious 30s ... because EdF which goes bankrupt would still be sad and a monstrous failure for France ...
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by moinsdewatt » 04/01/18, 18:03

Fessenheim: one year from closure, retraining raises questions

By AFP the 04.01.2018

The government and local players will soon be looking into the reconversion of the site of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant (Haut-Rhin), which is still vague, which should stop definitively within a year.

The Secretary of State at the Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition Sébastien Lecornu announced Thursday that he would go to Alsace on January 18 to set up a "steering committee" on the conversion of the plant after having already brought together local elected officials at the end of November,.

This committee must bring together local elected officials, State services, EDF and representatives of economic players. "We have a lot of very concrete working avenues," Sébastien Lecornu assured RTL.

On site, the wait is great while the power plant directly employs 850 EDF employees and around 350 permanent employees of service provider companies, not to mention the number of indirect and induced jobs.

We await "financial compensation and how to recreate 2.000 jobs quickly," said AFP Claude Brender, mayor (without label) of the municipality of Fessenheim.

The town of 2.400 inhabitants "lives thanks to the power plant", recalls the mayor. And local authorities intend to be compensated for the 15 million euros in annual tax revenue that will be lost.

- "Nothing concrete" -

Several projects to convert the site have been mentioned in the past, such as the possible installation of an electric car factory for the American Tesla, a battery factory project or the creation of a pilot plant dismantling site .

We are also talking about a research center, the installation of a gas power plant in the region, or even a large solar farm, an area in which EDF recently announced its ambitions.

"For the moment there is nothing concrete, we are at the beginning of the beginning", regrets the mayor Claude Brender.

The calendar is pressing, however: Fessenheim, dean of French nuclear power plants, must close when the EPR reactor in Flamanville (Manche) goes into service, which EDF plans to do between late 2018 and early 2019. Will then open along dismantling site ...

France cannot produce more nuclear electricity than it currently does: the obligation to comply with the current ceiling is a requirement of the energy transition law passed in 2015.

The country has a fleet of 58 reactors and nuclear represents around 75% of its electricity production. But it is planned to reduce this figure to 50% by 2030 or 2035, so that other plants will have to close.

- "A symbol" -

Fessenheim will therefore be the first to close, a commitment from previous President François Hollande taken over by his successor Emmanuel Macron.

"It has become a symbol," said Nicolas Goldberg of Colombus consulting, AFP.

"Fessenheim has crystallized many things: it is the oldest, it is on the Franco-German border, there has been a re-evaluation of the seismic risk in the area and in addition, there is one of the reactors at shutdown for a while ", recalls the expert.

Indeed, the Fessenheim 2 reactor is in prolonged shutdown following an anomaly on the lower shell of a steam generator. A problem related to irregularities at the forge of the Areva nuclear group in Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire).

So many difficulties that made the dean of power plants a priority target for environmentalists.

"We must stop procrastinating: the Fessenheim plant must close," said Alix Mazounie, energy campaign manager at Greenpeace France.

"Its lack of security and safety, its obsolescence, but also its low rate of electricity production are all criteria that make its closure essential," she said.

"The German and Luxembourg governments have repeatedly expressed strong concerns over the risk of a power plant accident in recent years," Alix Mazounie told AFP.

https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/nature- ... ons_119598
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Re: Fessenheim, the nuclear power plant is 30 years old!




by Janic » 08/01/18, 14:29

keeping the plant in operation and securing it costs a lot of money, but shutting it down and dismantling it costs even more. Cruel dilemma for decision-makers when EDF has empty pockets.
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