How to explain the “anomalies” detected in the monitoring of manufacturing equipment within the Areva plant in Le Creusot? It was there that manufactured the tank of the Flamanville EPR, including steel defective in composition. Monday, Areva did not rule out that “falsifications” in being originally indicated the newspaper Les Echos on its website.
“I can not exclude it,” said the newspaper the CEO of Areva, Philippe Knoche. “We have conflicting minutes. Either there was additional tests that are not traced, and we must have the belief that they exist. Otherwise, it will draw the consequences,” Does -he adds. “At this stage, we can neither confirm nor exclude falsifications,” said a source from the nuclear group.
The modified records?
Meanwhile, Bercy expects full results of the audit conducted on the manufacturing Creusot Forge, before say, the newspaper said.
According to Les Echos , an operator realized metallurgical tests on a piece and wrote on the production file “results on the chemical analysis of casting, forging parameters, heat treatment history, the results of mechanical tests “. “If the value obtained in the top of the required standard, the minutes of some production records were changed”, says the newspaper, citing an unnamed source.
Le Creusot Forge site specializes in the manufacture and machining of large and complex forgings and castings, essential to the manufacture of the primary components of the nuclear island. The possibility of falsification is revealed few hours after the visit of Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron Monday on the site where the tank is manufactured in Le Creusot.
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