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River Bend Nuclear Power Station in Louisiana is one of the nuclear reactors which was supplied with apparently defective Schneider Electric Circuit Breakers.

River Bend was scrammed during an electrical storm and suffered a loss of coolant: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/lightening-scrammed-nuclear-reactor-lost-cooling-off-for-weeks-on-again-now-off-usnrc-inspection/ Was this related to the defective Schneider circuit breakers?
There are hundreds of them at River Bend Nuclear Power Station.

The French nuclear regulator, ASN, recently reported evidence of irregularities in the quality control of around 400 parts produced, since 1965, at Creusot Forge in Le Creusot France. 50 are known to be in use at French Nuclear Power Stations. Where are the other 350 parts? https://web.archive.org/web/20160513070812/http://www.asn.fr/Informer/Actualites/Irregularites-concernant-des-composants-fabriques-dans-l-usine-Areva-de-Creusot-Forge This seems to overlap almost 20 years, out of almost 150 years, when Creusot Forge still belonged to what is now Schneider Electric. The French Schneiders, with Alsacian roots, literally forged a military industrial complex at Le Creusot, which later morphed into a nuclear industrial…