British Energy Public Meeting, Nether Stowey, Monday 20 th October 2008 Richard Mayson, Nuclear Counsel © Copyright EDF Energy plc. All rights reserved.

British Energy Public Meeting, Nether Stowey, Monday 20th October 2008

Richard Mayson, Nuclear Counsel© Copyright EDF Energy plc. All rights reserved. 2006. 1

Hinkley Point Nuclear New Build

Hugh Hutton

Severn Estuary Forum

Gloucester, Friday 11 September 2009



About EDF Energy

•UK’s biggest electricity generator

– Nuclear

– Coal

– Gas

– Wind

– Combined heat and power

•Largest UK electricity network operator

•Gas and electricity supplier to 5.5 million customers



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Helps combat climate change

Reduces reliance on imported gas

Benefits customers and UK competitiveness

The policy case for nuclear

Low CarbonEmissions

Security of Supply

Stability of Costs



EDF is committed to new nuclear in the UK

• EDF Energy intends to build four nuclear units in the UK by 2025 – subject to a robust investment framework

• EDF Energy’s target for completion of first new nuclear power station in the UK is end of 2017

• Technology choice is EPR – 1650 MWe PWR

• Preferred sites are in the south of England

• Hinkley Point in Somerset – 2x EPR

• Sizewell in Suffolk – 2x EPR

• Other sites may also be needed



UK nuclear power station sites

EDF/BE nuclear power stations

Site nominated for new build*

Sizewell

Torness

Hartlepool

Dungeness

Hunterston

Heysham

Hinkley Point

Wylfa

Oldbury Bradwell

SellafieldKirksanton

Braystones

*The nomination process for potential new build sites does

not apply in Scotland



Hinkley Point – new build nomination area

A B

C

A,Boutfall

A,B intake



Baseline studies• Flora and fauna

• Breeding birds• Inter-tidal and inshore birds• Wintering birds• Bats• Botanical interest• Badgers, dormice, great crested newts,

water voles, otters, reptiles, invertebrates

• Marine• Fish entrainment• Plankton• Water quality• Subtidal and intertidal habitat mapping • Sediment particle size and distribution• Bathymetry (single beam, sidescan, swathe)• Intertidal topography• Waves – direction, amplitude (Waverider plus shorter term shallow water

installations)• Hydrographic surveys (fixed plus towed doppler current measurement)



Cooling water discharge modelling



Socio-economic impacts

• Hinkley Point B•Over 550 EDF Energy staff plus 220 from contract partners

•Apprenticeship programme – currently 21 apprentices

•Around £30million into local economy per year

• Hinkley Point C (current assumptions)•Construction 2012 to 2018 (first unit on line by end 2017)

•Construction workforce of several thousand

•60 year operational life

•600-900 operating staff

•20 year decommissioning period



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