Dokument - 13 augusti, 2008
The French nuclear company Areva is building a prototype European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) in Olkiluoto, Finland. Greenpeace has revealed new violations in the project, some of which the Finnish authorities have failed to detect or address. They show that wholesale neglect of basic construction standards and nuclear safety by Areva and its main subcontractor, the French Bouygues, has gone on for years. The information in this briefing is based on confidential documents obtained by Greenpeace and on the work by a Finnish Broadcasting Company investigating journalist Juha Granath, who has been working independently on the issue.