Areva Discovers High-Carbon Anomaly In Flamanville 3 Components
French nuclear power giant Areva has found a
high-carbon anomaly in the steel used for portions of the reactor vessel
head and reactor vessel bottom at the Flamanville 3 project in
Normandy, France, the French regulator, the Authority of Nuclear Safety
(ASN) said Tuesday.
Areva is constructing the Flamanville 3 reactor on behalf of state-controlled utility Electricite de France (EDF). The project has already run into long delays, pushing the original completion date back from 2014 to 2017. Meanwhile, Areva, which is also government-owned, is already reeling from four years of consecutive losses, partly the result of delays at Flamanville and in Olkiluoto, Finland, where a similar reactor build has run into costly delays, and partly due to an abrupt slowdown in the industry after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami event crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. Read More>>>> http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2015/04/08/areva-discovers-high_2d00_carbon-anomaly-in-flamanville-3-components-040802.aspx#.VSU7w2aKI-9
Areva is constructing the Flamanville 3 reactor on behalf of state-controlled utility Electricite de France (EDF). The project has already run into long delays, pushing the original completion date back from 2014 to 2017. Meanwhile, Areva, which is also government-owned, is already reeling from four years of consecutive losses, partly the result of delays at Flamanville and in Olkiluoto, Finland, where a similar reactor build has run into costly delays, and partly due to an abrupt slowdown in the industry after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami event crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. Read More>>>> http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2015/04/08/areva-discovers-high_2d00_carbon-anomaly-in-flamanville-3-components-040802.aspx#.VSU7w2aKI-9
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