Areva: the United Kingdom on issues concerns the concept of ERP
After the French and Finnish, is Britain's turn to make reservations on the flight control system of the EPR, the third generation reactor group Areva, supported by EDF. Management of Health and Safety UK, the body responsible for the safety of the nuclear industry in the United Kingdom has warned Friday it could not agree to the concept of the EPR and that the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor, the nuclear subsidiary of Japanese group Toshiba.
The safety authority said it nevertheless continued to believe that the two concepts could be suitable "for building new nuclear plants in the United Kingdom, but the two designers had" much work was carried out to meet our questions (…) security. "
The Areva group immediately responded
"It is quite normal that questions be raised before the final certification and the launching of a new reactor. These exchanges are integral to a transparent process, "responded immediately Areva group, chaired by Anne Lauvergeon, in a statement. The evaluation process should not end before 2011 and the first plant should be started in 2017.
In the News group Areva, the sale of its subsidiary transmission and distribution power T & D. While the choice of buyer is expected very soon, we learn that the CEO of U.S. conglomerate General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt, candidate for redemption, met with two consultants Nicolas Sarkozy to defend his group's bid, the Financial Times.
Areva received November 9 three bids came from the French firm Alstom, Schneider, General Electric and Toshiba of Japan for the redemption of its T & D division, estimated at between 3 and 5 billion euros.