[Machine Translation] EPR plant in Flamanville: does EDF really control its construction site? While China has inaugurated its first EPR reactor, delays are accumulating on the site of the EPR Flamanville in the Channel. Defects noted at the end of March on strategic welds will further postpone the opening of the plant “at least a few months” according to the Nuclear Safety Authority. In Flamanville, we are facing systemic failures. It is no longer a matter of simple problems that add up to each other. It is in these terms that Mycle Schneider, an independent Canadian expert and co-author of an annual report on the nuclear industry, draws the alarming report of the Flamanville shipyard. On May 31, EDF announced a delay of several months in the construction of the EPR plant due to welding defects on pipes. A new setback that will delay the commissioning of the plant. And this is mainly due to a long series of problems since the launch of the project in December 2007.
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