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The fiasco led Siemens of Germany to end a joint venture with Areva, the lead contractor, reducing the chances of Franco-German co-operation on further EPRs.Last December Abu Dhabi plumped for cheaper South Korean models over French EPRs.
The key, a nuclear executive told me at Flamanville, is that "we can make mistakes, but we must not lie about them".France wants to export EPRs around the globe, from America to India to Abu Dhabi.
China, by far the biggest builder of nuclear capacity, is likely to buy more EPRs than it would have done.
It is the lead contractor for two EPRs in France, one under construction at Flamanville and another planned for Penly.The Atmea reactor being developed by Areva and Mitsubishi is a hopeful sign.
The Chinese firm is already building two EPRs in China.
The British, Czechs and Finns, who are all also looking at a design by America's Westinghouse (the Finns are examining a South Korean one, too), would not be keen to be captive customers, but they may choose EPRs anyway.The most labile European country on matters nuclear has, not surprisingly, been Germany, where great engineering and anti-nuclear sentiment have long coexisted uneasily.
When GDF Suez, another French company with nuclear capability, offered to build and finance its own EPR in France it was rebuffed.
Nuclear power is in the midst of a global comeback, and Areva NP's new design, the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR), is leading the field against competing blueprints from American and Japanese rivals.Being a minority shareholder, the German firm complained, "considerably limits the entrepreneurial manoeuverability of Siemens within the joint venture".
Its European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) is the world's most advanced nuclear reactor and some consider it the safest.
Dr Tisherman and his colleagues prefer to call it emergency preservation and resuscitation (EPR).
The slowdown comes just as Areva is about to start making money from new reactors, after suffering heavy losses on its first EPR, in Finland.Some big markets, such as China and India, are expected to push ahead with new nuclear plants.
