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2008
Greenpeace hands out..

Greenpeace hands out warning: French nuclear industry at work

Press release | 22 May, 2008 at 15:18

Greenpeace activists today presented high-level government and business delegates to the European Nuclear Energy Forum with a warning against involvement in new fault-ridden French nuclear reactors, which have been portrayed as the ‘flagship’ of...

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Media Briefing: Safety..

Media Briefing: Safety Implications of Problems in Olkiluoto

Publication | 16 May, 2007 at 2:00

When the Finnish company TVO ordered a European Pressurized Water Reactor from the French company Areva, Finland became the first industrialized country in more than a decade to start nuclear construction. The reactor was supposed to “set a new...

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2009
"Illegitimate and..

"Illegitimate and dangerous" reactor for the sake of French nuclear industry

Press release | 30 January, 2009 at 11:23

Greenpeace condemns the announcement made by French President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday evening that a new European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) is to be built in Penly, France. It is Greenpeace's belief that building yet another reactor is entirely...

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2008
Greenpeace labels Sarkozy's..

Greenpeace labels Sarkozy's EPR announcement "lunacy"

Press release | 3 July, 2008 at 2:00

Greenpeace today condemned French President, Nicolas Sarkozy's announcement of plans to build a second European Pressurised nuclear Reactor (EPR) in France (1). The decision comes just three days after France took over the EU Presidency.

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Finland votes for more..

Finland votes for more ridicule

Blog entry by jmckeati | 5 July, 2010

Not content with building a nuclear reactor that has become a laughing stock and a byword for incompetence and waste, Finland’s government went even further last week by voting to approve the construction of two more reactors. Once...

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AREVA covers up extent of..

AREVA covers up extent of massive nuclear reactor cost overrun

Blog entry by jmckeati | 24 June, 2010

French nuclear giant AREVA were force to issue a profit warning yesterday. It has had to find an extra 400 million euros to cover the additional costs of building its so-called flagship European Pressurised Reactor at Olkiluoto in...

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France leads the way in the..

France leads the way in the nuclear debacle

Blog entry by jmckeati | 2 August, 2010 1 comment

If you want to know why the so-called nuclear ‘renaissance’ is never going to happen, you need only look at the news that’s been coming out of France in the last few days. In short, the supposedly leading world experts in nuclear...

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OL3 EPR reactor at..

OL3 EPR reactor at Olkiluoto delayed again

Blog entry by ahristov | 29 April, 2010

Originally posted by Justin on April 20, 2010 4:52 PM Sorry we’re late posting to the blog today, we’ve only just finished mopping up the tears of laughter that flooded the office after we read this … The construction of...

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The cost of new nuclear power

The cost of new nuclear power

Blog entry by Andrew Davies | 29 April, 2010

Originally posted by Justin on April 21, 2010 4:21 PM Following on from yesterday's news that the new OL3 EPR nuclear reactor at Olkiluoto in Finland has been delayed once again, Greenpeace are launching a real word version of...