Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant

Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant
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 / 49.53639; -1.88167
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(s)	EDF
Operator(s)	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
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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 GW_e 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]