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South Carolina Fights U.S. Plan to Abandon Nuclear Project Costing $1.2 Million a Day.

Wall Street Journal 18th July 2018, South Carolina Fights U.S. Plan to Abandon Nuclear Project Costing $1.2
Million a Day. Department of Energy is spending over a million dollars a
day on facility designed to dispose of surplus weapons-grade plutonium.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/south-carolina-fights-u-s-plan-to-abandon-nuclear-project-employing-1-800-1531906201

July 20, 2018 Posted by | business and costs, USA | Leave a comment

AREVA – now called “Fromatome” – working on faults in nuclear reactor components

Romandie 18th July 2018 Framatome (formerly Areva NP) has completed the analysis of the anomalies
detected on the manufacturing files of components manufactured on its site
of Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire) for the French reactors of EDF, and the
factory is now “fully operational,” said Wednesday a company executive. The
audit launched in 2015 after detecting the existence of anomalies involved
three phases: an inspection step, or a review of “nearly 4,000 files”, then
a technical analysis phase of any discrepancies raised. which is “totally
finished for all the parts of the French park”, said David Emond, director
of the division Components of Framatome, during a press point in Le
Creusot. “We still have to finish a number of foreign customers, and it
will be done at the end of the year,” he added. The Nuclear Safety
Authority (ASN) must now complete the study, reactor by reactor as
scheduled maintenance stops by EDF, the results transmitted by Framatome.
https://www.romandie.com/news/937602.rom

July 20, 2018 Posted by | France, safety | Leave a comment

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