Talking of new nuclear reactors, Disconnector notes that EDF’s newest reactor project, at Flamanville in Normandy, has run into a spot of bother.
The ASN, the French equivalent of our Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, has identified some shoddy workmanship, including weaknesses in the steel grids reinforcing the concrete base supporting the building housing the nuclear reactor, a European Pressurised Reactor like the one EDF would love to build here.
Makes you think, doesn’t it?
