Re:A Double First in China for Advanced Nuclear Reactors
by realusername on Friday July 06, 2018 @12:09AM
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The Flamanville EPR is a bit of a special case since it's the first of its kind, so it's not surprising that it's not on budget and schedule, I hope EDF learned some lessons from that.
If you want an order of magnitude of how huge the drifts are, have a look at the construction of the EPR of Flamanville in France[1]: started in 2007 with an initial timeline of 5 years and budget of €3.3bn, it is still not completed as of today (they just announced targeting the end of 2018) and the current budget is over €10.5bn.
In the end, the complexity, criticality and sheer scale of these projects make them extremely hard to lead properly and any setback can have gigantic impacts.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...