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France’s state-owned project developer partly blames disruption caused by Covid pandemic and Brexit
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 25 January 2024
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/uk-nuclear-station-could-be-delayed-to-2031-and-cost-up-top-gbp46-billion-says-edf-1-3-2024
The manufacture of the reactor pressure vessel for the first of two EPR units at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset, UK, has been completed in France and the large component is ready for delivery to the construction site.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 17 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-reactor-vessel-for-Hinkley-Point-C-completed
EDF, China General Nuclear (CGN) and the UK government have agreed a three-year extension to the contract for difference (CfD) for the Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset, England. While the 'long-stop date' has now been moved to November 2036, EDF maintains the plant's start-up schedule remains unchanged.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 03 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Three-year-extension-agreed-to-Hinkley-Point-C-con
The application for the construction of Sizewell C power plant in Suffolk, in the east of England, has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 21 July 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-government-approves-Sizewell-C-nuclear-power-pl
The UK government has allocated GBP100 million (USD134 million) to continue the EDF-led development of the Sizewell C nuclear power plant project, with the aim of attracting further finance from private investors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 28 January 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Sizewell-C-gets-financial-backing-from-UK-governme
EDF Energy, the UK arm of France’s state utility EDF, which is building two EPR units at the Somerset site, said the installation shows how building an identical copy of the first reactor drives efficiency and saves time. It said the ring, which is 47 metres in diameter and 17 metres high, was built 25% more quickly than the same part on Unit 1, requiring thousands of hours less labour to manufacture.
The company said this “replication effect” will benefit the proposed identical Sizewell C project in Suffolk. The government recently announced funding of £1.7bn in the Sizewell C nuclear power station project as it pushes to reach a final investment decision within three years and begin a programme of new-build that will replace the nation’s aging reactors. The government has also announced legislation to introduce a new financing model, known as the regulated asset base model, for new nuclear.
Big Carl is 250m tall and has a reach of about 270m. It moves on rail tracks and will eventually lift pieces weighing more than 1,000 tonnes. The ring was placed on 96 hydraulic jacks which lowered it into its exact position.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 17 November 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/world-s-largest-crane-lifts-first-containment-ring-into-place-at-unit-2-11-2-2021
Final contracts for the construction of two EPR plants at Hinkley Point C were signed on 29 September 2016. Since then, 3,600 British companies have won contracts on the project.
In an update on the project, which is likely to see cost increases and delays because of the Covid-19 pandemic, EDF Energy said the next prefabricated 17m high section of the first reactor building is complete and ready to be lifted into place by the “Big Carl” crane, which is the world’s largest.
Work to build the 16m-high floor for the first turbine and generator is under way, ready for the world’s most powerful “Arabelle” turbine, which arrives later this year. Each turbine can produce more than 3% of the nation’s electricity, enough for more than three million homes.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 30 September 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/hinkley-point-c-five-years-after-go-ahead-nuclear-plant-project-is-recovering-from-shock-of-covid-9-3-2021