The Centrale Nucléaire de Flamanville is a nuclear power plant near the town of Flamanville, in the Normandy region of northern France. The first two units of the Flamanville nuclear power plant have been in operation since the mid-1980s and are scheduled to remain on the grid until 2036 and 2037 respectively. Since 2007, however, a new, third unit has been under construction. Originally, Flamanville 3 was to be completed in 2012. However, there were numerous delays, which drove up construction costs and pushed the planned completion further and further into the future. Reasons for delays included financing problems, administrative hurdles, disagreements between the various parties involved, a non-functioning reactor control system, leaking welds, low-quality construction materials, alarming anomalies in the design of the pressurized reactor and safety hazards in the construction process. As of November 2022, completion should take place during 2023. Whether this will actually happen is doubted by some. Certain political parties and groups are calling for the demolition of the construction site. Currently, the total construction costs are estimated at the equivalent of about 12.700 million Euro.