PARIS, March 10 (Reuters) - France's nuclear safety watchdog ASN has ordered energy utility EDF EDF.PA to inspect about 200 pipe weldings across its 56-nuclear reactor fleet after discovering three ...

One is welding the vessels used to contain the reactor core, isolating it from the outer environment. Using conventional techniques, this can take over a year, but Sheffield Forgemasters have reduced ...

Sheffield Forgemasters has completed weld-assembly of a full-sized small modular reactor nuclear vessel demonstrator assembly using Local Electron-Beam Welding. It said the technique took less than 24 ...

PARIS, Nov 29 (Reuters) - French power giant EDF (EDF.PA), opens new tab is looking to recruit a new generation of welders, pipe-fitters and boiler makers to fix its ageing nuclear reactors and build ...