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Re:Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost o... by manfredo on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:00PM (#25163660)
Flamanville is one of the first EPRs built by France. The bulk of its nuclear fleet were built on serial production of the same design. 34 900 MWe reactors and 20 1300 MWe reactors make up the bulk of its generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Techni...
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Re:Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost o... by CogentHedgehog on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:15PM (#25163817)
Unit 3 at Olkiluoto in Finland was started before Flamanville and it hit massive cost overruns and delays as well. It was another EPR -- it's not like Flamanville was the very first build of this design, they had another to learn with.
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Re:Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost o... by cbmuser on Friday November 20, 2020 @08:48PM (#25167248)
Yes, and two EPRs up and running in Taishan, China, that were started after the two you mentioned.
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