Licensing and construction experience

World-class licensing record

The EPR™ reactor has already secured construction licenses from three of the world’s most demanding safety authorities in France, Finland and China :

• The Finnish electricity utility Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO) signed a contract with the AREVA and Siemens consortium to build a turnkey EPR™ unit at the Olkiluoto site in Finland.
  The construction permit was obtained on February 2005.
• On January 23, 2007, EDF ordered AREVA’s 100th nuclear reactor, which is being built in France, on the Flamanville site.
  The construction permit was awarded on April 10, 2007.
• On November 26, 2007, AREVA and CGNPC signed a contract for the supply of two EPR™ Nuclear Islands on the new site of Taishan in China in the context of a long-term cooperation agreement.
  The construction permit was awarded on August 2009.

It is also being considered by other countries :

• American operators are currently exploring the possibility of using the EPR™ technology to develop their own production capacity. The licensing process (a Design Certificate and a Combined Operating License) was launched in late December 2007.
• In October 2007, was launched a Design Licence (Generic Assessment Design) in the United Kingdom.
• In April 2008, E.ON chose the EPR™ reactor as its reference design for the new nuclear power plants in the United Kingdom.

The EPR™ is the first Generation III+ reactor being built in the world. 
Four EPR™ reactor are under construction.

• at Olkiluoto in Finland, since late 2005 (future operator: TVO)
• at Flamanville in France, since mid-2007 (future operator: EDF)
• at Taishan in China, since August 2008 (future operator: China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp)