Flamanville: Areva believed to have underestimated a defect of the vessel of the EPR
Areva he deliberately concealed a default, potentially dangerous, in the tank of the reactor under construction at the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) at Flamanville? In April we learned that an abnormality was detected in the composition of the steel lid and the bottom of the reactor vessel. However, Areva has made measurements in 2007 and did not specifically warned the Nuclear Safety Agency (ASN) for these results. Meanwhile, the company continued construction.
This new information was revealed by a note from the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety to the President of the ASN. Sylvie Cadet-Mercier, responsible for monitoring new reactors at the Institute of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), who is the author, asks in the columns of the Duck chained “Is it a lack of competence? Alertness? Surveillance? “
In an official communication, Areva said that” two carbon measurements were carried out in 2007, “but that they had not intended to” check the carbon content of a considered area then safely. “The firm also ensures that” these measures have been the subject of a communication to the government dice 2008. “
canardenchaine #AREVA denies your claims. We have always been transparent about the manufacture of the tank # EPR- AREVA France (AREVAfr) July 8, 2015
When contacted by Le Parisien, a spokesman said that the 2007 measures were present in a “very dense report, sent to the Nuclear Safety Authority in 2008.” The figures difficult to detect for ASN in such a document. The report was updated in 2010. The same is true of too much carbon in the samples of the tank. The document is sent ASN without, again, point …
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