The European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) at Flamanville, the first new nuclear reactor to be built in France in 15 years, is now expected to open in 2016 instead of the original starting date of 2012, and will cost €8.5bn instead of the original estimate of €3.3bn.
On its territory is installed the seaside Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant, established there in the eighties, with two PWR reactors of 1300 MWe each, which were put into operation in 1986 and 1987.
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Flamanville has been selected for the installation of the first French EPR reactor (which will be Flamanville's third reactor) near the two existing ones.
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During the summer a high-speed passenger ferry is operated from there to Alderney and Guernsey by Manche Iles Express.