Blogposts tagged 'Flamanville'

Double whammy to EPR sites in France and Finland

Posted by ben - 25 June 2008 at 9:53am - 0 Comments

EPR

20 Greenpeace activists blocked the entrance to 3 quarries in Normandy that supply concrete and gravel for the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) site at Flamanville yesterday. We took this action to stop the re-opening of the construction site, which had been ordered by the French Nuclear Safety Agency (ASN). This was despite none of the safety problems the ASN discovered over a month ago having been adequately resolved by EdF, who are carrying out the project.

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Construction stopped on French 'flagship' nuclear reactor

Posted by ben - 27 May 2008 at 3:16pm - 4 Comments

We've learned that the French nuclear safety agency has ordered a halt to the construction of the new EPR reactor in Flamanville, France. Only six months after work first began. The EPR is the same type of reactor that is proposed to be built in the UK.

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