EDF wants to half the scheduled time it takes to build a nuclear plant from 140 months to 70 months, the head of French state energy utility said.

According to reports in France chief executive officer Luc Rémont said a planned fleet of up to 14 new EPR2 reactors will be built in an average of 70 months each, or just under six years.

Initially, EDF was planning nine years of construction for the first six plants and seven and a half years for the rest of the series.

Valerie Faudon, general delegate of the French nuclear energy society Sfen, told Euractiv that the “series effect” makes the targets possible.