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France Earthquake / ASN Completes Audit Of EDF Checks At Cruas Nuclear Station

By David Dalton
12 December 2019

ASN Completes Audit Of EDF Checks At Cruas Nuclear Station
The Cruas nuclear station in France. Photo courtesy ASN.
France’s nuclear regulator ASN audited a number of checks carried out by state-controlled nuclear operator EDF following an earthquake last month that affected the Cruas nuclear power station.ASN said EDF had carried out inspections at the station, in the Ardèche region of southern France, on 20 and 22 November and it had audited the results before it gave approval for the reactors at the facility to restart.ASN approved the restart of Cruas-2 and Cruas-4 on 6 December and of Cruas-3 on 11 December.

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