5 January 2009
UK: Areva sets out its nuclear stall
France's Areva is stepping up the drive to win orders for its European Pressurised-water Reactor (EPR) in the UK
Last month, the company announced agreements with two UK engineering firms, Balfour Beatty and Rolls-Royce, covering engineering, manufacturing and construction of new nuclear reactors, including the provision of skill and supply chain requirements. Areva says the country's nuclear construction programme could be as large as 25 gigawatts, indicating a market for about 15 reactors. With two of the original four companies positioning to design the UK's new fleet of reactors having dropped out, Areva is adopting a confident stance. The firm says the EPR is the only Generation III+ reactor in construction – the first to start up, delayed to 2012, should be the unit being built at Olkiluoto, Finl
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