Protestors of the nuclear project raised questions over the safety of the EPR.
The French government is leaving no stones unturned to assure of the safety of the evolutionary pressurised reactors (EPR) to be installed in the proposed 9,900MW Jaitapur nuclear power plant (JNPP) project.
Addressing a press conference in the city on Monday after a meeting with Dr Srikumar Banerjee, chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, Bernard Bigot, chairman of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, said nuclear safety authorities from Finland, France and the UK have given a clean chit to the reactors' design. The EPR was evaluated after the earthquake in Fukushima, Japan, this April, which was followed by a massive tsunami that triggered a nuclear accident in the 40-year-old Daiichi power plant.
"The report has given the green light to the EPR design, as it was found that there are no faults with the design. We hope that the first EPR reactor will begin working in Flamville (in France) by 2014. From a technical point of view, things are going rather well for reactors in Finland," said Bigot.
He said an interim report was released on November 10 and the complete one will be made available to the public in January.
The brickbats over design faults for the EPR in the JNPP project, to be supplied by France-based company Areva, have reportedly led to a delay in the execution of nuclear projects in Finland and France. Protestors of the nuclear project raised questions over the safety of the EPR after several nuclear safety agencies reportedly found faults in their design.
Bigot assured that by the time work on the JNPP project kicks off, the first reactor in Flamville would have begun, adding energy to the grid. On the dicey issue of the safety of such plants during earthquakes, Bigot assured that there will be no harm even when quakes of magnitude 6.0 jolt the area.
"The plant is capable of handling earthquakes of magnitude up to 7.5 on the Richter scale."
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