Sentences with phrase «french nuclear safety»

In May 2016, the French nuclear safety regulator said an ongoing quality audit at Areva's Le Creusot forge - which Areva bought in 2006 - had identified «irregularities» in paperwork on some 400 plant components produced there since 1965.

Veaujour says a joint study for the French nuclear safety agency IFPN, and Germany's GRS, also «broadly approved» EDF's plans for Mochovce last month.

Not exact matches

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.

The cutting - edge, 1,600 - megawatt nuclear power plant, Olkiluoto 3, which its French maker Areva boasted as the most advanced safety design of the time, is still under construction today.

Calculations by the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) in Cherbourg have calculated that, close to the Fukushima plant, there is a risk of harm to marine life, particularly to animals born in the spring.

He worked at IRSN (the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety) from 1999 to 2001 and was a Professor at the Joseph - Fourier University from 2001 to 2014.

The biggest energy news to come out of Brussels this week was the post-Fukushima nuclear stress test report leaked to French and German media, which concludes that the EU's nuclear power plants need to be upgraded considerably to bring them up to the highest safety standards.