A comprehensive reactor portfolio of GEN III+ technologies to meet our clients’ needs

Shaping Net-Zero future with state-of-the-art generation III+ nuclear technologies

EPR: a proven and robust technology for high energy demand

  • 1650
    MWe

    Net power output

  • 60
    years

    Lifetime

  • ≥90
    %

    Availability

  • 12 - 24
    months

    Operation cycle length

The EPR reactor

The most powerful reactor worldwide, the EPR reactor has been designed with the highest standards of safety as well as optimised technical, economic and environmental performance.

EPR1200, the EPR mid-size adaptation

Entirely based upon the fully proven EPR design, the EPR1200 benefits from EPR’s robustness at a power output of 1200 MWe (instead of 1650), with the highest standards of safety as well as optimised technical, economic and environmental performance.

The EPR1200 is adapted to various site and grid conditions.

  • 1200
    MWe

    Net power output

  • 60
    years

    Lifetime

  • ≥90
    %

    Availability

  • 12 - 24
    months

    Operation cycle length

The EPR reactor: cutting-edge, safe, respectful of the environment

Benefitting from unrivalled operating performance, EPR is the only Generation III+ nuclear reactor in the world, already licensed by four recognised nuclear authorities: in France, the United Kingdom, Finland and China.

Robustness

✓ A proven technical configuration resulting from 60 years of experience and mature Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) technology.

✓ Together with EDF, the French nuclear industry relies upon the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Framatome, Orano, amongst others, as well as benefits from the expertise of the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) and the French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN).

Safety

✓ Nuclear safety is our overriding priority and is at the forefront of what we do.

✓ A GEN III+ technology with the highest standards of safety with strong resistance:

  • Design taking into account external extreme hazards
  • Post-Fukushima requirements integrated in the design
  • Resistance to severe accident as per design: very low frequency of severe accident

Competitiveness

✓ Outstanding operating performance with an availability over 90%

✓ An unbeatable flexibility thanks to load-following: capacity to adjust its power up to 80% in 30 minutes twice a day as per design

✓ A highly dispatchable solution with an availability 24 hours a day 7 days a week on demand

✓ A high degree of localisation to boost the Polish economy

Environment-friendly

✓ Carbon-free electricity generation avoiding 10,5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per reactor per year

✓ Biodiversity preservation with a limited land footprint, thanks to a high energy density

NUWARD™: a fully integrated SMR design

For lower power needs, EDF and a high-level team of partners from industry and energy sectors have joined their strengths and competences to develop an SMR technology: NUWARD™.
With a net power output of 340 MWe (2 reactors of 170 MWe each), NUWARD™ is based on decades of experience on proven PWR technology and gathers 50 years of experience in energy generation, reactor design, industrialisation and construction.

With NUWARD™, EDF answers to numerous needs:

  • Replacement of 300-400 MWe industrial coal-fired boilers
  • Electrify remote communities
  • Power industrial sites or less interconnected infrastructures

Highly maneuverable, NUWARD™ is also designed to support other potential usages such as hydrogen production, district heating or desalination.

NUWARD™ will meet the emerging SMR market by 2030s as EDF plans to build a NUWARD™ reference plant in France by 2030.

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Building a long-term partnership

EDF manages the entire nuclear power plant lifecycle

  • DESIGN

  • BUILD

  • OPERATE

  • DECOMMISSION

EPR for Europe: the benefits of being part of the EPR European Fleet

Europe being at the heart of the Group’s strategy, EDF is currently involved in several EPR projects under development in Europe and aims at expanding its footprint. Poland will then benefit from economies of scale and faster learnings, securing the project delivery.

Europe's map, with EPR projects in United Kingdom, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia and France