Nuclear: No Obstacle to the Extension of the EDF Reactors Beyond 60 Years (Regulator)
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"We must continue the effort of vigilance and early detection of changes and phenomena of degradation and ageing," the Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Authority said.
The French nuclear gendarmerie considers, in a draft opinion published on 22 October, that nothing prevents the continued operation of the nuclear power plant beyond 60 years, provided that EDF carries out "consequential work".
Experts from the French Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Authority (ASNR) have not identified any technical obstacles that would prevent the country's nuclear power plants from operating beyond 60 years, Les Echos reports.
The 56 reactors in the French fleet currently in operation were mostly put into service in the 1980s. Only a dozen could not pass the 60-year mark.
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