A growing investigation of nuclear plant components made in France and sold in Europe and the United States is getting special attention at Xcel Energy's Prairie Island facility. The two nuclear ...

Avec 579 millions d’euros investis, Forge + doit permettre à Framatome de produire davantage pour les futurs EPR. Sur le futur site au Feu de verse, les ambitions industrielles croiseront les ...

Framatome reached a major milestone in its review of Le Creusot Forge’s manufacturing records, finishing the task of identifying and characterizing deviations in all of the records for forgings ...

An international team of inspectors found evidence of forged paperwork at Areva’s Creusot Forge, as well as other violations. The regulators discovered an employee “amending a manufacturing record in ...

Although AREVA recently disclosed that 17 U.S. nuclear power plant units have installed components that were forged at the Le Creusot facility in France—a forge that has been under scrutiny due to ...

An ongoing quality audit at the Le Creusot forge has identified "irregularities" in paperwork on some 400 plant components produced there since 1965. The issues "comprise inconsistencies, ...

A U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission sign is pictured at the headquarters building in Rockville, Maryland, March 21, 2011. REUTERS/Larry Downing By Timothy Gardner and Scott DiSavino WASHINGTON ...

UPDATE: An inspection at the Millstone Nuclear Power Plant Monday had favorable results. Millstone was checking for cracks on a pressurizer in the Unit 2 Reactor. The inspection came after news that ...

« Il n’y a qu’une route qui sépare nos habitations du projet Forge +. Il prévoit la construction de halles de 30 à 40 mètres de haut, pour une surface de 30 000 à 40 000 mètres carrés, six fours, etc.

Framatome said yesterday it had received approval from the French Nuclear Safety Authority and EDF to resume the manufacture of forgings for the French nuclear fleet at its Le Creusot site. The ...

Areva SA, the troubled French maker of nuclear reactors, is extending its probe into the irregularities in quality control at its forge in Le Creusot as it uncovered new anomalies in manufacturing ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Tuesday unveiled a letter showing that 17 of the country's nuclear reactors have parts from Areva SA's Le Creusot forge in France ...