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| an "evolutionary design" | |
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Enhanced industrial and environmental performance, improved safety meeting the standards of the French safety authority : developed by Framatome-ANP, with its "evolutionary design" the EPR integrates operating experience from French and German nuclear reactors in an effort to make continuous improvements.
The conception of the EPR aims at improving performances by taking profit from the experience in existing nuclear power plants.
The reactor is composed of 4 redundant safety trains, each within a separate building, to guarantee the safety of the operations, whatever happens. A shell of reinforced concrete protects the more sensitive buildings of Flamanville 3, which is a protection against external hazards. A core melt recovery device ("core catcher") has been installed in order to limit consequences of a hypothetical severe accident.
Safety options of the nuclear reactor EPR have been approved by the DGSNR.
significant environmental improvements
Flamanville 3 nuclear power plant, like all nuclear power plants, generates electricity, without emitting CO2, which is in favour of the fight against the global warming.
In its continuous improvements initiative and its will to protect the environment, EDF brought to the design of the new reactor a lot of improvements.
Those improvements will enable, during the operating phase, a reduction in the amount of releases in the environment about 30% per kWh produced, whatever the kind of releases : chemical and radioactive releases (excluding tritium and carbon 14 which are the same as in the existing nuclear power plants).
Likewise, the production of radioactive waste globally decreases. (30% decrease for some kinds of waste). Als, in order to limit the impact of the use of fresh water, a desalination facility will be built on the site.
This 1,650 MW reactor (as opposed to 1,450 MW for the latest reactor series) consumes 17% less fuel due to the use of more efficient assemblies and higher turbine efficiency. This improvement, along with refuelling outage times which are 2 to 3 times shorter, will increase annual power output by 36% compared with current reactors.
The impact in the landscape is low. The construction project of a new plant next to the 2 existing plants does not affect the land and maritime hold of a site prepared to receive 4 plants.
Competitive and stable production costs because not dependent of raw materials.
The first-off Flamanville 3 will be built with a capacity of 1,650 MW,, enough to supply a region of 1.5 million people.
