http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2010/7/26/safety-fears-about-french-areva-epr-raised-in-europe-and-us.htmlSafety fears about French Areva EPR raised in Europe and U.S.
The New York Times has reported allegations of safety significant design flaws with nuclear fuel rod cladding, as well as the danger of control rod ejection accidents, at the French Areva "European Pressurized Reactor" targeted at Flammanville on the Normandy Coast. Meanwhile, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has continued to question the safety of interconnections between safety and non-safety "Instrumentation and Control" systems at the Areva "Evolutionary Power Reactor" targeted to be built at Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Maryland, Nine Mile Point on the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York State, and elsewhere. See the NRC press release here. And see the NRC letter to Areva here.
Date July 26, 2010
I took a quick look at the NYT article - what a fuck-up. Just like the absurdly optimistic cost estimates that were thrown around a few years ago, the industry risk analyses are also absurdly optimistic.
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