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AREVA’s nuclear tentacles now embracing Kuwait

France And Kuwait Ink Nuclear Power Agreement, Nuclear Street, 21 April 2010, Areva and EDF are promoting the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), a newreactor design that France considers one of the most advanced in the world – By April Murelio -An agreement “to develop the peaceful use of nuclear energy” has been signed in Paris by Kuwait’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Nasser Mohammed al-Ahmad al-Sabah, and French government officials.Areva and EDF are promoting the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), a third-generation reactor design that France considers the most advanced in the world.Sarkozy vaunted the “safety and reliability” of this reactor and “France’s ability to provide a service covering the whole nuclear energy cycle,”

April 22, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | MIDDLE EAST, politics international | antinuclear, AREVA, EDF, enriched, nuclear, nuclear spin, reactor, uranium