EDF : EDF prepares for the next stage of system performance testing at the Flamanville EPR
October 09 2017 - 2:41AM
EDF prepares for
the next stage of system performance testing at the Flamanville
EPR, with a view to the fuel loading and the reactor start-up at
the end of the 4th quarter of
2018.
Work on the Flamanville EPR is
progressing in accordance with the timetable announced in September
2015. The system performance tests, which confirm and test how all
the EPR circuits are working, began in the 1st
quarter of 2017 and will continue until fuel loading and reactor
start-up at the end of the 4th quarter of
2018.
Having completed the so-called
"chasse en cuve" (vessel flushing operations) during the summer of
2017, the teams are now preparing for two new phases, as part of
the system performance tests:
-
so-called "cold" tests, which will
start in the second fortnight of December 2017,
-
so-called "hot" tests, which will start
in July 2018.
During the so-called "cold" tests,
many operations will be carried out including water tightness tests
in the reactor's primary circuit at a pressure of over 240 bars
(higher than the pressure of the circuit when it is operating).
Once these operations have been
completed, EDF will move on to the so-called "hot" tests, in order
to demonstrate that the installation is working properly. These
tests will involve checking the equipment under similar temperature
and pressure conditions to those under which it will operate.
More than 1,000 engineers and
technicians working for EDF and industry partners have been
mobilised to carry out these system performance tests.
EDF confirms the roadmap of the
Flamanville 3 project drawn up in September 2015 with a fuel
loading and start-up of the reactor at the end of the 4th quarter of
2018 and confirms that the project cost is set at 10.5 Billion
Euros1.
1 In 2015
Euros, excluding interim interest
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EDF prepares for the next stage of
testing at the Flamanville EPR
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