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Juillet 2011 / The Wall Street journal

France : Aging Reactor Safe for 10 Years



PARIS—France’s oldest nuclear reactor, in Fessenheim, is fit to run 10 more years, providing operator Électricité de France SA carries out improvements such as reinforcing the first reactor’s base by June 2013, the country’s nuclear-safety agency said Monday.

State-controlled EDF must also install additional equipment to ensure heat evacuation in case of a loss of cooling at Fessenheim-1, the agency said.

"This is the first time that we have undertaken this kind of test post-Fukushima," (…)

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