Tag: corrosion
France/Nuclear-The stress corrosion crisis in reactors is still present-EDF – 04/04/2024 at 6:11 p.m.
The crisis of stress corrosion of certain EDF nuclear reactors is still present and will be until the end of 2025, declared Thursday the director of nuclear and thermal production…
The Donges refinery, 2nd in France, “completely shut down” for “corrosion and leaks” – 03/02/2024 at 4:17 p.m.
The TotalEnegies refinery in Donges, in Loire-Atlantique, January 20, 2023 (AFP / LOIC VENANCE) The Donges site, France’s second largest refinery, has been “completely shut down for more than a…
The Donges refinery, 2nd in France, “completely shut down” for “corrosion and leaks”
The TotalEnegies refinery in Donges, in Loire-Atlantique, January 20, 2023 (AFP/Archives/LOIC VENANCE) The Donges site, France’s second largest refinery, has been “completely shut down for more than a week” due…
EDF must revise the corrosion controls of nuclear reactors
Published on 03/07/2023 at 7:52 p.m. Photo credit © Reuters PARIS (Reuters) – The Nuclear Safety…
Nuclear: in Chinon, an EDF laboratory tracks corrosion
An employee of the Chinon Integrated Expertise Laboratory (Lidec) at the Chinon nuclear power plant, January 26, 2023 in Indre-et-Loire (AFP / GUILLAUME SOUVANT) The pipe lab: EDF’s Chinon Integrated…
Nuclear: EDF wants to “industrialize” work related to corrosion
PARIS, November 8 (Reuters) – EDF wants to industrialize and standardize work related to the corrosion problems detected in certain nuclear power plants in order to reduce the duration of…
Nuclear: EDF wants to “industrialize” work related to corrosion
PARIS (Reuters) – EDF wants to industrialize and standardize work related to the corrosion problems detected in certain nuclear power plants in order to reduce the duration of shutdowns of…
At EDF, a crucial race in the reactors to solve the corrosion problem
The site of the Cattenom power plant in Moselle, October 17, 2017 (AFP/Archives/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN) With more than 600 people on deck, the construction site is titanic at EDF to reconnect…
Two more EDF reactors suffer from corrosion problems, according to press
Published on 04/11/2022 at 6:14 p.m. Photo credit © Reuters PARIS (Reuters)…
Two more EDF reactors suffer from press corrosion problems
Two more EDF reactors suffer from press corrosion problems | Photo credits: © EDF / AGENCE REA / ALLARD DENIS PARIS, November 4 (Reuters) – Two additional EDF nuclear reactors…
Corrosion: EDF will extend the shutdown of four nuclear reactors for several weeks
The Penly nuclear power plant in April 2012 in western France (AFP/Archives/CHARLY TRIBALLEAU) Four French nuclear reactors, affected by corrosion problems, will see their shutdown extended for several weeks this…
Corrosion as a new problem: France has only 24 out of 56 reactors on the grid
Corrosion as a new problem France has only 24 out of 56 reactors on the grid 8/25/2022, 9:32 p.m France covers 70 percent of its energy needs with nuclear power.…