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 ...

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 (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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Framatome, a unit of EDF, has asked for more time to change the vessel closure head at the reactor as the ASN's initial planning to have it replaced by the end of 2024 would have meant to halt the ...

The EPR is also equipped with what Areva refers to as a “core catcher.” If the fuel cladding and reactor vessel systems and associated piping become molten, ...

PARIS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Framatome, a unit French power group EDF , opens new tab, has asked for more time to change the nuclear vessel closure head at the Flamanville EPR nuclear reactor, France ...

French nuclear watchdog ASN said in a statement that reactor builder Areva has informed it about an anomaly in the composition of the steel in certain zones of the reactor vessel and cover of the ...

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 ...