It is in any case the opinion given by the nuclear Authority of safety (ASN) following a control of the Italian company Società delle Fucine, which manufactures certain parts of the intended pressurisor with engine EPR of Flamanville, located in the English Channel. ( Finance Information City )
The control of the ASN “highlighted a variation in the conformity of the realization of mechanical tests making it possible to check the quality of the parts manufactured”, according to a note of information published by the ASN.
“This variation, which consisted in employing material nonin conformity for the realization of the tests, shows a deficiency of the quality system of the subcontractor”, continues the ASN, by inserting the nail…
The controlling authority recalls that “the regulation provides that the manufacturer, here Areva NP, are responsible for the conformity of the parts, including when it sub-contracted part of their realization”. “Overall, the ASN considers that Areva NP must ensure a more effective monitoring of its subcontractors”, the note underlines.
Concerning the building site of Flamanville, the Authority gives two months to Areva NP “to bring the demonstration of the quality of the parts of the pressurisor”, faults of what these parts “could not be accepted”.
A spokesperson of Areva declared Tuesday that the noted failures related to “a test which was not carried out in accordance with the requirements” of the group.
Which affirms “to have reinforced the monitoring of the system of quality of this supplier without awaiting” the opinion of the ASN, by carrying out “one audit of its quality system” and to have envisaged “complementary tests” to control the conformity of the parts in question.
The “failures” raised by the ASN “relate to a procedure of test and not the intrinsic quality of the component in question”, underlines Areva in addition.
This incident intervenes in an tense atmosphere within the building site of nuclear reactor EPR led by Areva in Finland, where many problems of safety and safety were pointed finger, in particular by associations of environmental protection. Three years of delay and a consequent increase in the budget of building site EPR are one of the consequences of these dysfunctions.
However, if one believes the state enterprise of it, the handing-over with the order of the ASN will not have a consequence on the calendar of construction of the EPR, “which will be respected for the part which falls on to him”.
However, the newspaper the Echoes reported in its edition of Monday that the group of BTP Bouygues, person in charge of the activities of civil engineering on the site, had indicated to the project superintendent EDF that the “concreting of the heavy floor of the building engine” would show a delay of “several months”.
Contacted by AFP, energy group EDF did not contradict information, but confirmed “the objective of starting of the EPR of Flamanville in 2012” without more precision.
The newspaper “the Echoes” also evokes a “delay of more than one year” in the digging of the well of evacuation which must serve at sea to evacuate warm water from the engine as third generation. This operation, entrusted to a subsidiary company of the group of BTP Vinci, would have undergone breakdowns of material and a speed of boring three times slower than envisaged.
At the end of August, Canard Enchaîne had already given a report on “at least nine months of delay” in the construction of the EPR of Flamanville.
For network To leave Nuclear power, which recalls in an official statement the delay of two years and half taken by the building site of the Finnish EPR, whose Areva is project superintendent, “the French cannot build nuclear reactors any more”.
“It is in oneself very a good news but, on the other hand, the financial consequences are announced serious for French public finances”, according to the antinuclear ones which ask for the stop of “the whole of program EPR”.
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