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China nuclear sites delayed: companies
Paris (AFP) Aug 28, 2009 Work on two powerful new nuclear reactors in China was delayed by wet weather, the French companies building them said on Thursday, as campaigners claimed the project was likely to fall through. A spokesman for French nuclear group Areva said that a ceremony to pour the first concrete in the site of the third-generation European Pressurised Reactors (EPR) had been postponed because of "two typhoons in the region." "The pouring of the first concrete is due to happen soon" at the site in Taishan in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, he said. A spokeswoman for the French power operator EDF, which is to run the reactors, said the ceremony would go ahead "in a few weeks." The French anti-nuclear campaign movement Sortir du Nucleaire said however that Chinese authorities were now likely to cancel the projects. The group cited problems with other EPR reactors and accusations of corruption linked to the China project that have been made against the two French companies. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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