French nuclear fuel cycle company Framatome has signed “contracts worth multi-billion euros” with Sizewell C Ltd, laying out the scope of its involvement in the Sizewell C nuclear new build project in the UK, the company said in a statement on 15 April.
Sizewell C is a planned 3,400 MW new nuclear power station in Suffolk in eastern England. The station will be a follow-on and sister facility to the 3,400 MW Hinkley Point C nuclear station being built in Somerset, western England, near the city of Bristol. Both stations will have two France-supplied EPR plants.
Sizewell C is 51% owned by the UK government and 49% owned by French state nuclear power company EDF. The separate Sizewell C Ltd joint venture company was created earlier this year to build and develop the plant.