World's First Operational EPR Reactor . A series of Sino-French agreements on cooperation in the construction of Taishan EPR nuclear power project in Guangdong Province were signed on November 26, ...

AREVA (Paris:AREVA), together with EDF, has recommended to the French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) to adapt the testing programme of the Flamanville 3 EPR reactor vessel head and bottom as ...

In July 2018, Škoda JS of the Czech Republic was awarded a contract by Framatome to manufacture and supply two sets of EPR reactor pressure vessel internals for the Hinkley Point C plant. The contract ...

The manufacture of the reactor pressure vessel for the first of two EPR units at the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant under construction in Somerset, UK, has been completed in France and the large ...

Areva SA found weaker-than-expected steel in part of the reactor vessel for a nuclear plant being built in France, the latest blow to the showcase for new technology after repeated delays and ...

Washington, D.C., Nov. 4, 2010 — Here’s another major blow to the increasingly problematic nuclear renaissance: France’s “European Pressurized Water” (EPR) reactor design is “in crisis ...

PARIS, April 7 (Reuters) - Areva has found weak spots in the steel of the EPR nuclear reactor it is building for utility EDF in Flamanville, France, French nuclear regulator ASN said on Tuesday.

EDF's new nuclear reactor in Flamanville will be delayed by at least six more months and costs will increase by another 500 million euros ($531 million), the company said on Friday.

Team members with Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR) have successfully lifted and removed the lower reactor vessel from the Oak Ridge ...

More trouble has been reported at one of the four European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR) units currently under construction. AREVA announced on April 7 that chemical and mechanical testing ...

The Flamanville 3 EPR has now started providing electricity to homes in France after a nearly 12-year delay. The EDF power company says the Flamanville power plant has three nuclear reactors.

AREVA delivered the vessel of the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) to the EDF Flamanville nuclear power plant site in France, concluding a trip that started at the beginning of September.