For Edf, Work At Flamanville-3 On Track Without Increasing Pace

摘要

Electricite de France has the option of increasing the pace of work at the Flamanville-3 EPR reactor construction site in Normandy if needed to meet its target for startup in 2012 but does not have firm plans to do so, officials said last week.rnBoth Bernard Dupraz, senior executive vice president, generation and engineering, and Bernard Salha, vice president nuclear engineering, expressed confidence that the initial teething pains of the Flamanville-3 job are behind the company. EDF poured first safety-class concrete on its first 1,650-MW EPR just over a year ago, on December 3, 2007.