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Nuclear Reaction - a Greenpeace blog: Areva, EPR and Flamanville: never forget

Posted on August 27, 2008

French newspapers today revealed that the new French EPR reactor being built in Flamanville is at least nine months behind schedule. Problems can surely occur on big projects, but the bad news for EPR is that its construction started only last December exactly nine months ago! They have not only delayed in delivering the project, they had so many failures that they have created extra work adding up to nine months. Back to square one, Areva!It is always frustrating to find yourself back at the starting point after trying hard to advance, but this is what the French nuclear industry may only...

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