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AREVA: suspicion of falsifying production records




by Christophe » 03/05/16, 11:21

And it wouldn't date from today ...

EXCLUSIVE - The audit carried out after the discovery of an “anomaly” on the tank of the Flamanville EPR revealed inconsistencies in the files for manufacturing nuclear components at the Areva site in Le Creusot. It could be falsifications.

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According to the Nuclear Safety Authority and Areva, around 400 manufacturing files are affected by "inconsistencies", out of around 10.000 manufacturing files audited over a period dating back to around fifty years. All types of components manufactured at Creusot Forge, whether they belong to the nuclear island (steam generator ferrules, tank elements, etc.), to the conventional island (turbine rotors) or to non-nuclear applications, are concerned. A large half of the malfunctions relate to nuclear parts, indicates a source.

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by Obamot » 03/05/16, 11:39

It is exactly for this type of reason that the Swiss-Germans have oriented their arguments on the need to get out of nuclear power:
unreliability of human beings and the serious consequences that we saw twice: in Chernobyl then Fukushima (with gross errors of follow-up of the directives and / or bad designs of the systems causing a fatal cascade of problems until the catastrophe of level 7 >>> reactor fusion). Unfortunately, we see that it is more than founded!

And one of the experts to exclaim after Fukushima:
— "If the Japanese have not arrived, we will never do it" ...
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by Janic » 03/05/16, 12:43

would that not remind of the "cheating" on cars?
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by Christophe » 03/05/16, 12:59

Absolutely, I hesitated to talk about it in the introduction ...

The difference is that here it dates back to 50 years ago! There is a prescription (unlike radioactivity) ... the engineers of the time must be dead or senile!

AREVA did not exist at the time ... It was COGEMA and / or FRAMATOM (or other, maybe even CEA for the very first reactors) ... so, criminally, this will be quite easy for AREVA lawyers (if there is a trial one day ...).

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by Christophe » 03/05/16, 13:01

Obamot wrote:And one of the experts to exclaim after Fukushima:
— "If the Japanese have not arrived, we will never do it" ...


I believe that the EPR tank which poses a problem ... is precisely Japanese (Mitsubishi Industries ...) ... in France, 1st country of the atom, we no longer know how to make nuclear tanks ...? ?
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by Obamot » 03/05/16, 13:17

... and with the younger generation of (some) current morons - all graduates in "show off"- whose" pinnacle "of career achievement is just having an Instagram account and an iTruc to send selfies: we are not out. : Shock:

Aaaaaaah human genius:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODelzfAmauA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2vqrA-RprQ

PS: fortunately not all, but the others must pull their hair ...?
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by Janic » 03/05/16, 14:23

I believe that the EPR tank which poses a problem ... is precisely Japanese (Mitsubishi Industries ...) ... in France, 1st country of the atom, we no longer know how to make nuclear tanks ...? ?
It is also a way to clear customs in the event of a problem: it's their fault !!!! and no one is guilty anymore. : Evil: : Cry:
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by Did67 » 03/05/16, 14:27

1) These are no longer suspicions; saw on the 13pm newscast (Fance2) an Areva executive admitting that records were falsified, "that there were inconsistencies in some manufacturing records". But of course, "that didn't mean there was a safety issue!"

2) The last inconsistencies found concern files from 2012.

3) The information is contradictory, but it seems that the Flamanville boiler comes from Le Creusot.

Note all the same, on this foum where we sometimes tend to put everyone in the same bag (like "all rotten"!): It is the ASR which highlighted these inconsistencies and " took out "the info (it seems to me).
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by Obamot » 03/05/16, 15:43

You mean ASN (Nuclear Safety Authority)? Which in the jargon, gets confused fairly quickly with ASR (but that doesn't say the same).

Finally for my part I share the same feeling, these are not just suspicions, it is true. Here we also have the famous case of the Mulheberg power station, whose cracks in the reactor core mantle have long remained in "confidentiality" ... Even up to the highest levels of the State, which was justified in this way. (in fact always the same way):

Federal nuclear safety inspectorate IFSN wrote:Currently, various media in German-speaking Switzerland report cracks in the mantle of the Mühleberg reactor core. The ENSI has gathered the most important facts on this subject in one file.

The cracks in the mantle of the Mühleberg reactor core have existed since 1990. The IFSN has informed them regularly. It appears from all the studies carried out so far that the mantle of the heart of the Mühleberg power station fulfills its safety functions despite the presence of cracks and the safety concept is not weakened.
http://www.ensi.ch/fr/2011/08/04/fissur ... uehleberg/


You can imagine, these cracks have existed since 1990 !!!
What is more, the IFSN knew it ...
This plant is regularly shut down for problems.

Finally it will be closed in 3 years (2019):
the Mühleberg nuclear power plant for 2019, due to the investment being too high, i.e. too expensive, for the continuation of nuclear operation9. The cost of dismantling is estimated at more than 2.1 billion Swiss francs
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrale_nucl%C3%A9aire_de_M%C3%BChleberg#Fermeture_en_2019

The first nuclear power plant to be closed since the vote to exit nuclear power from Switzerland!
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by Did67 » 03/05/16, 17:28

yes, it was most likely ASN.

When I want to check, I come across this: http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/ ... _3234.html

AREVA therefore falsifies its control reports.

And the subcontractors deliver parts with false certificates!

And in the meantime, we're talking about Place de la République, to invent something! And thugs break windows and think about changing the world? And the media talk about the breakers who break and of the standing Night movement which does not know how to do ... My Gods !!!! (but hey, it's not for nothing).
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