The Flamanville-3 nuclear power plant project in northern France has been delayed by at least six more months and costs will increase by another €500m ($531m), plant supplier EDF said.
The 1,630-MW EPR plant, which is already a decade behind schedule and has been dogged by repeated cost overruns, is now expected to start operations in the first quarter of 2024 and cost €13.2bn, EDF said.
In January EDF had forecast construction costs of €12.7bn and said fuel loading at the plant would begin in the second quarter of 2023. Nuclear fuel loading is now scheduled for the first quarter of 2024.
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