France is “far from ready” to build six new nuclear plants and any final investment decisions for EPR2 deployment programmes should be held back until financing has been secured and detailed studies carried out to assess the projects, the state’s state auditor said in a report on 14 January.
The Cour des comptes also said French nuclear company EDF should not make a final investment decision in the UK’s Sizewell C reactor project until it has reduced its exposure to its other British development, Hinkley Point C.
The Cour des comptes noted that EDF has still not provided a forecast profitability of the EPR2 programme and the financing of the reactors remains unclear.