EDF admitted the delays with the nuclear reactor is building in France, but says that your plants UK are on target. Above, one of the older generation reactor Sizewell in Suffolk. Photograph: Graham Turner for the GuardianEDF, the French company in the heart of plans to build a new generation of nuclear plants in Britain, admitted that a similar plant is being built in France will take almost two times and cost almost twice the price in advance.
The European pressurized reactor (EPR) in Flamanville, in the Administration, it is now expected to open in 2016 and costs € 6 (￡ 5 .6BN) instead of the original date of the beginning of 2012 and a cost of € 3 BN.
The FED said last year that Flamanville had fallen behind its original schedule, but insisted that he would be ready to generate electricity in 2014 and cost € 5. A spokesman for the French company said a start date of 2018 for new British installations could be adjusted, but there was no reason to suppose that the ￡ plans to Sizewell, Suffolk and Hinkley Point, Somerset, would hit by problems similar to those seen in France.
"The experience in Flamanville is invaluable, as we progress in the United Kingdom. Each time the EDF builds the EPR, increases our experience. We are already seeing the benefits of the experience of existing projects, "he said.
But friends of the Earth (FoE) said the latest delays would make only nuclear wind and other cleaner technologies more competitive. "Britain's Energy future is definitely of renewable energies," said Simon Bullock, militant of the enemy's economy.
EDF blamed "structural and economic reasons" for the latest delays in Flamanville 3, highlighting that this is the first nuclear power plant to be built in France for 15 years.
The company said progress had been slowed by two serious accidents that forced it to suspend the work of civil engineering and by changes that may have to be incorporated as a result of the explosion of nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan. There had also been increasing material costs.
But the same story is played in Finland, where another French company Areva, was hit by delays in construction of a reactor designed similar. The FED is to build two plants of this project in China and believes that collective experience can only help when it comes to the construction of four associated EPRs in Britain.
The French company expressed optimism that the British Government's initiatives to fast-track planning for plants of great energy and introduce a floor for the price of carbon will put its newbuild in Britain on the track.
EDF has requested a license for its EPR in the United Kingdom and has already initiated preliminary work locations in Suffolk and Somerset. But he admits that the start date of 2018 for electricity production could be set back this autumn.
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