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Ten years minimum delay, an invoice multiplied by four: the construction of the Flamanville EPR has been EDF's black spot in recent years. At the microphone of Europe 1 Jean-Bernard Lévy, president and CEO of the first electricity supplier in Europe, came back to build the EPR in Normandy. "EDF is not happy with the way in which the Flamanville site was carried out," said Jean-Bernard Lévy.
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For him, these delays taken undermine the confidence that the company can give. "A great project manager will join us in a few weeks so as to understand how to do better," announced Jean-Bernard Lévy, hoping that the site will be finished at the end of 2022, so that the reactor will be in working order in 2023.
Asked about French energy policy, the CEO of EDF denounced the "Stop & go". "It is not a good way of doing [...] It is not by building a nuclear power plant every 15 years that we will be efficient," he said. For him, "there is a risk" that France would lose its nuclear know-how.
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