A French nuclear power reactor has been shut down for additional testing, the nation’s regulator said Thursday, as Greenpeace called for full disclosure of facilities using possibly faulty parts from Areva. Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) said reactor 2 at the Fessenheim plant operated by French national power company EDF had been halted since Monday “to carry out additional investigations” on its steam generation system following problems with parts discovered at an Areva manufacturing facility. The ASN said EDF had completed a review of 79 other irregularities, which it described as diverse “incoherencies, modifications and omissions in the manufacturing files concerning construction parameters and test results”.
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A French nuclear power reactor has been shut down for additional testing, the nation’s regulator said Thursday, as Greenpeace called for full disclosure of facilities using possibly faulty parts from Areva. The Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) said reactor 2 at the Fessenheim plant operated by French national power company EDF had been halted since Monday “to carry out additional investigations” on its steam generation system following problems with parts discovered at an Areva manufacturing facility.
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EDF has informed the French nuclear regulator that it has adopted a new strategy for decommissioning its first generation, gas-cooled reactors (CGRs). Dismantling of the six reactors will take longer than previously planned as the company wants to complete the decommissioning of one unit before working on the others.
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EDF has completed building a one-third scale reactor containment facility that will be used to verify construction methods and to study ageing of the materials used in the structure.
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