Fri Mar 31, 2017 | 3:49pm BST
French nuclear regulator ASN on Friday published extracts of a decade's worth of correspondence in which it had warned about safety issues at Areva-owned nuclear foundry Creusot Forge.
Commercial production at the foundry has been halted since late 2016 after the ASN discovered manufacturing irregularities and forgery of tracking documentation. Two of state utility EDF's reactors have been halted for months following the discovery of problems (...)