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EDF teams and their industrial partners are fully mobilized and are continuing all other assembly and testing activities at the Flamanville EPR, including the system performance tests. "The hot tests" are scheduled to commence before the end of 2018.

EDF is now preparing hot functional testing to be started in July 2018 . The objective is to demonstrate the good working order of the plant by testing components with temperature and pressure levels similar to operating conditions. Altogether, more than 1 000 EDF and industry partner engineers and technicians have been mobilised to perform these system performance tests .

In 2017, hot functional testing was successfully performed on unit 1, to test the equipment at temperature and pressure levels similar to operating conditions. The expected commercial operation of the reactor will commence in 2018 . Electromechanical assembly is being continued on unit 2, with start-up planned for 2019 . EDF also provides support for the CGN Group with operation of its entire fleet .

-Taishan: start of primary coolant system loading for hot functional testing, and start of First-Plant-Only-Test (testing on the internal structures vibrations. Significant progress in the performance plan.