French nuclear plant outages and restarts
Sept 25 (Reuters) - The following table provides information on outages at French utility EDF's EDF.PA nuclear reactors.
France has 62,990 megawatts (MW) of nuclear generation capacity provided by 57 reactors, data from power grid operator RTE shows.
Reuters estimates that 13,420 MW, or about 21%, of that capacity is offline. That puts online availability at 49,570 MW or about 79%.
Please click on the link at the bottom to access the data.
CURRENT OUTAGES | ||||
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REACTOR NAME | CAPACITY (MW) | OUTAGE START | EXPECTED RESTART | REASON |
CHINON 2 | 905 | Sep 12, 2025 | Oct 22, 2025 | Planned outage |
CHOOZ 1 | 1,500 | Aug 22, 2025 | Nov 25, 2025 | Planned outage |
BELLEVILLE 2 | 1,310 | Aug 22, 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | Planned outage |
BUGEY 3 + | 910 | Aug 16, 2025 | Oct 18, 2025 ND | Planned outage |
GRAVELINES 1 + | 910 | Jul 11, 2025 | Oct 18, 2025 ND | Planned outage |
FLAMANVILLE 3 | 1,620 | Jun 24, 2025 | Oct 01, 2025 | Unplanned outage |
DAMPIERRE 1 + | 890 | Jun 27, 2025 ND | Sep 28, 2025 ND | Planned outage |
CHINON 3 | 905 | Jun 20, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | Planned outage |
CRUAS 1 | 915 | Jun 14, 2025 | Dec 01, 2025 | Planned outage |
ST ALBAN 2 | 1,335 | May 23, 2025 | Sep 25, 2025 | Planned outage |
GOLFECH 2 | 1,310 | Apr 18, 2025 | Oct 16, 2025 | Planned outage |
BLAYAIS 4 | 910 | Apr 05, 2025 | Oct 09, 2025 | Planned outage |
TOTAL OUTAGES | 13,420 | |||
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PLANNED OUTAGES IN FUTURE | ||||
ST LAURENT 2 | 915 | Sep 26, 2025 | Nov 08, 2025 | Planned outage |
CRUAS 3 | 915 | Oct 11, 2025 | Oct 11, 2025 | Planned outage |
GRAVELINES 3 | 910 | Oct 03, 2025 | Nov 12, 2025 | Planned outage |
CIVAUX 1 | 1,495 | Oct 03, 2025 | Nov 15, 2025 | Planned outage |
CATTENOM 1 | 1,300 | Oct 04, 2025 | Oct 15, 2025 | Planned outage |
FLAMANVILLE 2 | 1,330 | Oct 31, 2025 | Jun 17, 2026 | Planned outage |
CHINON 3 | 905 | Dec 06, 2025 | Dec 06, 2025 | Planned outage |
BELLEVILLE 1 | 1,310 | Jan 18, 2026 | Jan 18, 2026 | Planned outage |
BLAYAIS 3 | 910 | Jan 17, 2026 | Apr 13, 2026 | Planned outage |
ST ALBAN 1 | 1,335 | Feb 28, 2026 | Jun 05, 2026 | Planned outage |
BLAYAIS 2 | 910 | Apr 11, 2026 | Jul 03, 2026 | Planned outage |
BLAYAIS 1 + | 910 | Apr 30, 2026 | May 14, 2026 | Planned outage |
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RECENT RESTARTS | ||||
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REACTOR NAME | CAPACITY (MW) | OUTAGE START | RESTART DATE | REASON |
PALUEL 4 | 1,330 | Sep 21, 2025 | Sep 21, 2025 | Unplanned outage |
BLAYAIS 2 | 910 | Sep 20, 2025 | Sep 22, 2025 | Planned outage |
CATTENOM 3 | 1,300 | Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 16, 2025 | Unplanned outage |
CATTENOM 3 | 1,300 | Sep 15, 2025 | Sep 15, 2025 | Planned outage |
PENLY 1 | 1,330 | Sep 12, 2025 | Sep 13, 2025 | Planned outage |
GRAVELINES 3 | 910 | Sep 09, 2025 | Sep 23, 2025 | Planned outage |
GRAVELINES 2 | 910 | Sep 09, 2025 | Sep 22, 2025 | Planned outage |
PALUEL 4 | 1,330 | Sep 03, 2025 | Sep 06, 2025 | Unplanned outage |
GRAVELINES 5 | 910 | Aug 02, 2025 | Sep 07, 2025 | Planned outage |
PALUEL 2 | 1,330 | Aug 01, 2025 | Sep 22, 2025 | Planned outage |
BLAYAIS 1 | 910 | Aug 30, 2025 | Sep 03, 2025 | Planned outage |
+: Latest change
ND: New date
NOTE: Data excludes partial capacity cuts. Data on those can be seen on RTE's website: https://www.services-rte.com/en/view-data-published-by-rte/downtime-of-generation-resources.html
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