Nuclear: the ASN points the risk of a new postponement for the EPR. The new president of the Nuclear Safety Authority, Bernard Doroszczuk, warns EDF and calls the sector to recover “around key skills.” After the episode of the EPR tank under construction in Flamanville (Manche), Bernard Doroszczuk and his college of commissioners will have to decide in the spring on the validity of welds not meeting the defined requirements. While EDF submitted its proposals for remedies at the beginning of December, if at the end of the investigation ASN considers the justification to be insufficient commissioning would have to be delayed.
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