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Areva’s EPR Gets Certification From Europe’s Utilities

Written by NucNet
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Areva’s European Pressurised Water Reactor (EPR) design has been certified by European utilities as compliant with European Utility Requirements, or EUR, Areva said yesterday. Representatives of the EUR group, which includes all the major European utilities interested in nuclear power, presented the certificate to Areva at a ceremony in Brussels. Areva said the award confirms that the EPR can be built throughout Europe and meets international regulatory requirements. The requirements number almost 5,000 and cover layout, system, material, components, probabilistic safety assessment methodology, availability, and other areas. Areva said the EPR complied with over 99 percent of the EUR and in some cases exceeded them, including aircraft crash protection, waste storage capacity, and a lifetime design of 60 years compared to the EUR requirement of 40 years.

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