Builders of new French reactor hiding safety risks, claims NGO

 

In France, Sortir du nucleaire published EDF documents, allegedly confidential, purporting to show that the novel design of AREVA‘s EPR reactor currently under construction could make it vulnerable to a major accident. It also claimed the Nuclear Safety Authority has been kept in the dark about the problem.

See (in France) http://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/index.php?menu=actualites&sousmenu=dossiers&soussousmenu=EPRrevelations&page=index

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