Flamanville: France's beleaguered forerunner to Hinkley Point C

Over-budget and behind schedule, the €10.5bn nuclear reactor has faced problems that some say could be repeated in the UKOn granite cliffs overlooking the Channel is France’s most famous building site. If all goes to plan, by the end of the decade this rocky outcrop will house the biggest and most powerful nuclear reactor in the world. The technology behind the European pressurised reactor (EPR) is meant to be safer than anything that has gone before. But the project is more than thre