Mai 2008 / Greenpeace Press Release (Paris)

French nuclear safety agency stops construction of ‘flagship’ nuclear reactor

French nuclear safety agency stops construction of ‘flagship’ nuclear reactor

Paris, 27 May 2008 – Greenpeace has learned that the French nuclear

safety agency, ASN, has ordered construction to be suspended on the

concrete base slab of the new European Pressurised Reactor (EPR),

Flamanville 3, in northern France. (1)

The EPR would be the world’s largest reactor and has been presented as

the ‘flagship’ of a supposed international nuclear renaissance.

Flamanville’s construction (...)