EPR (nuclear)

EPR (nuclear), initially European Pressurized Reactor, reamed Evolutionary Power Reactor), is a third generation pressurised water reactor design.

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 * 30 Oct 2021, Economist.com, Nuclear energy united Europe. Now it is dividing the club, France says it is green. Germany says it isn’t. France will win.Europe was a nuclear project before it was much else. In 1957 the EU’s founding members signed the Treaty of Rome to form the European Economic Community, the club’s forebear.
 * 14 Oct 2021, world-nuclear-news.org, France makes nuclear offer to Poland, France's EDF has made an offer to the Polish government to build as many as six EPR units. A project of that size would decarbonise 40% of the country's electricity and avoid up to 55 million tons of CO2 per year, EDF said. The "non-binding preliminary offer" represents a range of options for Poland. It details the engineering, procurement and construction that would be needed for four to six EPR units, at either two or three sites. The EPR units would produce 1650 MWe each.