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France’s Framatome has signed multi-billion euro contracts with Sizewell C Ltd, a standalone company majority-owned by the UK government, laying out the scope of its involvement in the Sizewell C nuclear new build project. This followed the UK Government Investment Decision in November 2022 to approve the construction of two EPR reactors at the Sizewell site on the Suffolk Coast. The two units will generate 3.2 GW of electricity and power the equivalent of 6m homes for 60 years.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 19 April 2024
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsframatome-signs-contracts-with-uks-sizewell-c-11694988
Framatome says it "has signed contracts worth multi-billion euros" with Sizewell C Ltd for key equipment for the two reactors from the design phase up to commissioning. It has also signed a long-term fuel supply agreement.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Framatome-signs-multi-billion-euros-contracts-with
France's nuclear industry giants - EDF, Framatome and Orano - have each reported improved results for 2023, compared with 2022, and expect continued growth in 2024, partly due to France's plan to build new reactors.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 17 February 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Improved-fortunes-for-French-nuclear-sector
EDF says it has created EDF EPR Engineering UK to strengthen its nuclear engineering presence in the UK and optimise its project performance. EDF EPR Engineering UK incorporates teams already present in the UK from EDF Group, including EDF SA, Framatome, Edvance and EDF Energy as well as its partners. EDF EPR Engineering UK is a 100% subsidiary of Edvance (itself a subsidiary of EDF and Framatome).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 29 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsedf-group-creates-new-uk-engineering-subsidiary-11180150
The UK Environment Agency (EA) has issued three new environmental permits to NNB Generation Company (Sizewell C) Limited for the new NPP planned at Sizewell in Suffolk. Sizewell C Limited applied to the EA for the permits in May 2020. The Environment Agency consulted on the application from July to October 2020 and on their proposed decision and draft permits from July to September 2022.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 31 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsenvironmental-permits-issued-for-sizewell-c-npp-10719303
The reactor pressure vessel (RPV) for unit 1 of the UK’s Hinkley Point C NPP (HPC) has been delivered to the site from Framatome’s Le Creusot facility in Burgundy, central France. Framatome completed manufacture of the RPV in December 2022. EDF Energy said teams had spent 80,000 engineering hours on its construction. It measures 13 metres in length and weighs 500 tonnes.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 01 March 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsreactor-pressure-vessel-delivered-to-uks-hinkley-point-c-npp-10637024
The first new nuclear reactor for a UK power station in more than three decades has finished its journey - by barge and then road - at the Hinkley Point C site in Somerset in southwest England.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 28 February 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/In-Pictures-Hinkley-Point-C-s-first-reactor-arriv
The RPV is the high strength steel cylinder that contains the nuclear fuel and the chain reaction needed to make heat. The heat is used to create high pressure steam for the world’s largest turbines. EDF Energy said teams have spent 80,000 engineering hours on its construction.
At 13m long and weighing in at 500 tonnes, each of two RPVs at Hinkley Point C will help power around three million British homes. The plants are designed to run continuously for 18 months at a time between refuelling.
The RPV has been built by France by Framatome, the same nuclear engineering company which built Britain’s last nuclear reactor, at Sizewell B in 1991. Since it went into operation in 1995, that reactor has provided 247 TWh of electricity, enough to power every home in Britain for two-and-a-half years.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Tuesday, 20 December 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/first-reactor-pressure-vessel-complete-and-ready-for-delivery-12-5-2022
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
The early framework agreement Framatome has signed with Nuclear New Build Generation (SZC) Ltd (NNB SZC) - which is owned by EDF and the UK government - covers early engineering and procurement activities, among other things.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 10 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Framatome-signs-preliminary-contract-for-Sizewell