CORRECTION: EDF : Information on EDF's nuclear fleet
October 21 2016 - 3:37AM
This is
a correction of the announcement from 08:45 21.10.2016 CEST. Reason
for the correction: correction of the English translation of the
paragraph starting with "Considering the..."
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PRESS RELEASE
21 October 2016 |
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Information on
EDF's nuclear fleet
As indicated in the EDF Group press release of
21 September 2016, EDF is progressing on controls in order to
demonstrate that those steam generators of the nuclear fleet
concerned by the issue of carbon segregation can operate in a fully
safe mode.
18 reactors are involved:
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6 of them have already been granted approval to
restart and are operating normally: Blayais 1, Chinon 1, Chinon 2,
Dampierre 2, Dampierre 4, Saint-Laurent B1.
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7 of them are on planned outage and have been or
are being inspected: Civaux 2, Dampierre 3, Gravelines 2, Tricastin
1, Tricastin 3, Saint-Laurent B2 and Bugey 4.
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For the 5 reactors currently in operation
(Tricastin 2 et 4, Fessenheim 1, Gravelines 4, et Civaux 1),
Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN - Nuclear
Safety Authority) in its Decision No. 2016-DC-0572 of 18 October
2016, requested EDF to conduct controls before 18 January
2017.
Consequently, in order to conduct these controls,
EDF decided the following reactor outages:
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Tricastin 4 from 22 October 2016 to 19 December
2016
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Fessenheim 1 from 10 December 2016 to 03 January
2017
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Gravelines 4 from 17 December 2016 to 10 January
2017
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Civaux 1 from 23 December 2016 to 15 January
2017
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Tricastin 2 from 23 December 2016 to 15 January
2017
Furthermore, EDF submitted to ASN on 7 October
2016 a technical report supporting the fully safe operation of all
the steam generators concerned by the issue of carbon
segregation.
The EDF Group today informed the electricity
markets of the chosen outage periods and is providing regular
information to Réseau de Transport
d'Electricité (RTE), which has responsibility for balancing
electrical power supply and demand and for ensuring the system's
security of supply.
Considering these circumstances,
their impact on the wholesale power market and the resulting
speculative effects, EDF today called upon both the Minister of
Economy and Finance and the Minister of the Environment, Energy and
the Sea to take, in order to avoid these effects, all necessary
measures under the regulated access to historical nuclear power
(ARENH) mechanism, including, as the case may be, the temporary
suspension of the scheme.
The 2016 nuclear output target is confirmed at
380-390 TWh as well as the 2017 nuclear output that should be in
the range of 390-400 TWh, as per the Group press release dated 21
September 2016.
A key player in energy transition,
the EDF Group is an integrated electricity company, active in all
areas of the business: generation, transmission, distribution,
energy supply and trading, energy services. A global leader in
low-carbon energies, the Group has developed a diversified
generation mix based on nuclear power, hydropower, new renewable
energies and thermal energy. The Group is involved in supplying
energy and services to approximately 37.6 million customers, of
which 27.8 million in France. The Group generated consolidated
sales of €75 billion in 2015, of which 47.2% outside of France. EDF
is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.
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