EDF - EPR technology that will power Hinkley Point C & Sizewell C, 21072016

An introduction to the EPR technology that will power the new nuclear power stations at Hinkley Point C & Sizewell C EPRs – also known as European Pressurised Water Reactors – are based on tried and tested nuclear reactor designs, enhanced with technological improvements. The EPR is a third generation Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR). EDF already runs 58 PWRs in France, as well as Sizewell B in Suffolk, and there are 277 successfully operating around the world.