[Machine Translation] Documents from the Institute of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) show that the EPR pressure vessel does not pass a strength test. It would therefore not be in compliance with the regulations, contrary to what is being said. Areva and EDF play a major part of their economic future this month. First session today: As the Echos recall, the High Committee for Transparency and Information on Nuclear Safety meets to discuss the safety of the EPR nuclear reactor vessel built by Areva on behalf of a group of companies, EDF in Flamanville. At the end of June, it will be around the Permanent Expert Group on Nuclear Pressure Equipment (GPESPN) to work. It will examine the findings of another body: the Institute of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), the technical expert of the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN). A technical note published by IRSN last April, but until now completely unnoticed, shows that the pressure vessel does not comply with the regulation of nuclear equipment under pressure. And poses a major safety problem. Drowned in the middle of a mass of documents put online, it is dated September 2015 and signed by Gérard Gary, a nuclear physicist, research director emeritus ex-CNRS attached to the laboratory of solid mechanics of the Ecole
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