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France / Key Step For Macron’s Ambitious Nuclear Plans As EDF Files Application For First EPR2 Reactors

By David Dalton
3 July 2023

Two units to be built at Penly with sites also announced for four further plants

Key Step For Macron’s Ambitious Nuclear Plans As EDF Files Application For First EPR2 Reactors
The first pair of EPR2 nuclear power plants could be built at the Penly site near Dieppe in northern France. Courtesy ASN.
EDF has filed an application to build the first pair of EPR2 nuclear power plants on the Penly site near Dieppe in northern France – a key step in ambitious plans put forward by president Emmanuel Macron to relaunch the country’s reactor construction programme.

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