Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Areva: for Ségolène Royal, the first tests on parts of the factory at Le Creusot are “good” – The World

The economy minister, Emmanuel Macron,  visit the factory of Areva in Le Creusot, May 2,  2016.

the first results of tests conducted by Areva on parts produced at its plant in Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire) are “good” , by environment Minister Segolene Royal. They would show in fact that the anomalies pointed by the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) only concern the control documents and not the items themselves

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“I look after the checks before finding the facts” , added, however, M me Royal RTL, adding that the ASN will publish the full results of tests “within fifteen days” . In its Tuesday edition, Les Echos revealed that an audit launched at the end of 2015 on the productions of Creusot Forge plant, which was manufactured the faulty tank of the Flamanville EPR, had detected “inconsistencies in manufacturing files” .

According to the business daily quoted an unnamed source during tests carried out by operators on metal parts, “if value obtained in the top of the required standard, the minutes of some production records have been modified, with a report” Official “holding a value of” average “in the report of the end of production.”

full audit result “end of May”

Areva had not ruled out that “falsifications” are the source of “anomalies” detected in monitoring equipment production. According to ASN and Areva, about 400 manufacturing files are affected by “inconsistencies” , approximately 10,000 audited production records in nearly fifty years. According to Les Echos , “a big half malfunction concern nuclear parts” .

The ASN asked the group “of transmit the earlier list of parts concerned and analysis of impact on plant safety in connection with the operators concerned “. Areva had estimated that the complete results of the audit would be available “end of May”

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