Nuclear : Kafka in the EPR – N°1
The vessel confines nuclear fire. Flamanville’s EPR* vessel in the Manche department in Western France would be subject during its 60 years life time planned by EDF and AREVA to considerable thermal, hydraulic, mechanic, and neutronic stresses. The vessel does not have to be strong; it has to be indestructible.
“The nuclear safety demonstration excludes the breakage of the vessel because no reasonable provision to restrict consequences for the reactor management, for personnel, the population and environment can be defined ” (source: report from Monitoring Group “EPR Vessel” of HCTISN, Haut Comité pour la Transparence et l’Information sur la Sécurité Nucléaire, High Committee for Transparency and Information on Nuclear Safety).
Nukes victim of an incurable disease
The decree authorizing creation of the EPR nuclear reactor in Flamanville in Normandy is, to put it simply, ludicrous. It was given without consideration of the public inquiry about releasing at sea liquid effluents of the new reactor. This public inquiry ended on March 17, 2007. The Enquiry Commissioner has not yet given his report and the EPR is already licensed! The current government says that all the information was presented and discussed in the frame of a preliminary public debate. This is false! The public debate of great mediocrity went from March 2005 to April 2006 in the alone department of Manche and attracted fewer people than the debate on the extension of a pleasure port.
