Sentences with phrase «french nuclear company»

The report also criticised the lack of transparency surrounding a recent agreement between the Congolese government and French nuclear company AREVA, which granted AREVA exploration and mining rights to the site.

As French nuclear company Areva and US - based Westinghouse went through financial difficulties, there are only a small number of countries left with an ability to run reactors and produce nuclear energy.

Nonetheless, the Eddy - Lea Energy Alliance in southeastern New Mexico is working with the French nuclear company, Areva, to develop plans for consolidated storage near the WIPP site.

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This is one of many safety issues currently being investigated by his team at the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation in Bootle, as it considers licensing new, supposedly safer, reactor designs from companies like Japanese - owned Westinghouse Electric and French - owned Areva.

This compares with EDF's average load factor for its French nuclear fleet of 73 percent in 2013, which is also down from its highest level of 77.6 percent in 2005, the company's 2013 results show.

The radioactive material was reprocessed by the French company Cogema in La Hague and will be used in Japan's fast - breeder nuclear reactor programme.

However French oil company Total has already spoken up for future involvement in nuclear, with incoming CEO Christophe de Margerie declaring that the company will one day have to be part of the nuclear industry.

On Thursday, the French company Areva, the world's largest builder of nuclear reactors, and Northrop Grumman announced an investment of more than $ 360 million at a shipyard in Newport News, Va., to build components for seven proposed American reactors, and more for export.

But Pearce argues that companies are often a little judicious with the facts behind these claims — Eurostar, for example, is fairly quiet when talking to the green market about the fact its low emissions are due to French nuclear power, and while Virgin's pendolino trains claim a pretty low carbon output, many of their other trains are still powered by dirty diesel (the UK is way behind Europe on electrification, which would cut emissions greatly).

It is exactly what has been happening with surprising frequency since that famous 2003 drought, where the French electricity company had to stop a whole series of nuclear plants because there was not enough water in French rivers, and its temperature was too high.