TABLE — French nuclear plant outages and restarts
(Adds Blayais 2 under current outages) Sept 24 (Reuters) — The following table provides information on outages at French utility EDF's nuclear reactors. France has 62,990 megawatts (MW) of nuclear generation capacity provided by 57 reactors, data from power grid operator RTE shows. Reuters estimates that 18,445 MW or about 29%, of that capacity is offline. That puts online availability at 44,545 MW or about 71%. Please click on the link at the bottom to access the data. CURRENT OUTAGES REACTOR NAME CAPACITY (MW) OUTAGE START EXPECTED REASON RESTART BLAYAIS 2 + 910 Sep 23, 2026 Sep 25, 2026 Planned outage NOGENT 1 1,310 Sep 19, 2026 Jan 07, 2027 Planned outage PALUEL 4 1,330 Sep 18, 2026 Nov 10, 2026 Planned outage GRAVELINES 3 910 Sep 18, 2026 Dec 18, 2026 Planned outage FLAMANVILLE 1 1,330 Sep 17, 2026 Dec 19, 2026 Planned outage ST ALBAN 2 + 1,335 Sep 17, 2026 Oct 2, 2026 ND Planned outage TRICASTIN 3 910 Aug 29, 2026 Dec 04, 2026 Planned outage CHINON 3 905 Aug 29, 2026 Oct 08, 2026 Planned outage BELLEVILLE 2 1,310 Aug 26, 2026 Sep 24, 2026 Forced outage ST LAURENT 1 915 Aug 25, 2026 Sep 27, 2026 Forced outage GRAVELINES 1 910 Aug 22, 2026 Oct 26, 2026 Planned outage CHOOZ 1 1,