France registered 8,515 reactor-days of nuclear reactor unavailability in 2022, the longest period in the past few years. EDF, the French electric utility company that manages the country’s nuclear fleet, started the revision of its nuclear reactors in 2021, after the identification of stress corrosion cracking in the facilities. The planned or forced power cuts caused by maintenance operations affected all nuclear reactors in France.
EDF is now inspecting the French nuclear fleet, planning to finish by 2025. Meanwhile, one nuclear reactor is under construction in the country and the government is planning at least six new generation reactors. The energy production outlook for France anticipated some 180 terawatt-hours of nuclear energy to be generated in 2050.
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Total unavailability at nuclear reactors in France from 2019 to 2022, by type of outage (in reactor-days) [Graph], WNISR, & Mycle Schneider Consulting, & Various sources (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (Germany), Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (Germany), Natural Resources Defense Council, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, EWS Schönau, The Greens/EFA, Schweizerische Energie-Stiftung SES), December 12, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1342464/total-unavailability-of-nuclear-reactors-by-type-france/