Support for local housing, leisure facilities, transport and local ecology schemes are just some of the ways Somerset residents will benefit from a £30 million package from EDF Energy.

The company has signed an agreement with West Somerset Council and a local landowner which will see the energy company providing £30 million to mitigate the impacts of the works to prepare the site for the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station.

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Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won a €250 million contract with AREVA to supply safety instrumentation and control (I&C) technologies and systems for the French nuclear reactor modernisation programme. The systems will be installed in the twenty-strong French fleet of 1300 MW nuclear reactors operated by Electricité de France (EDF). Read it all..

Studsvik has signed a 7-year contract with EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Limited worth 13.5 MSEK per year for carrying out materials testing on irradiated fuel and fuel components from AGR reactors (Advanced Gas cooled Reactors). The contract may be extended for a further 10 years. Read it all..

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EDF has submitted its 19 supplementary safety reports for the nuclear sites that are currently operating and those that are under construction to the ASN. This in-depth review of the design of power plants post-Fukushima was launched at the request of the French government, in accordance with the specifications published by the ASN on 5th May 2011. Read it all..

Foreign Office Minister and Member of Parliament for Taunton Deane, Jeremy Browne called in at EDF Energy’s Hinkley Point site this month to see for himself plans for a new nuclear power station. Read it all..

University of Cambirdge work with industry to educate nuclear leaders of tomorrow

Some of the biggest companies and organisations in the nuclear industry are lending their support to a new course which will prepare the engineers and scientists of tomorrow for incidents such as those recently witnessed in Japan.

Despite the recent, unprecedented events at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, global nuclear investment appears likely to continue after a period of careful consideration of the lessons that need to be learned. In the UK, the Government has commissioned a review.

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Press Release 03/01/2011

On 31 December 2010, EDF Group allocated 50% of the RTE shares to its dedicated assets portfolio set aside to cover future costs related to the decommissioning costs of nuclear plants and the downstream fuel cycle. This decision, approved by EDF’s Board of Directors on 14 December 2010, received the necessary administrative approvals. As a result of this decision, RTE remains wholly-owned by EDF. Read it all..

EDF Group is announcing a five year extension to the operating lifetime of its nuclear reactors at Heysham 1 and Hartlepool until 2019. The decision taken at a British Energy Board meeting follows positive results from technical and economic and safety studies conducted on these reactors. Read it all..

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Further information regarding the evolution of EDF shareholding in RTE following market rumours

Pursuant to the Law dated June 28, 2006, on the securing of the financing of nuclear expenses, EDF must build up a portfolio of dedicated assets enabling the Group to meet its future costs in terms of decommissioning of existing nuclear power plants as well as in respect of radioactive waste storage. Read it all..

EDF Energy welcomed the publication today of the CBI’s Energy Report which provides an independent assessment of the UK’s prospects for low-carbon, secure, affordable energy. Read it all..