I have mentioned the Le Creusot Forge multiple times in previous posts. It is owned by Areva, a nuclear reactor construction firm that is a subsidiary of the French-owned utility EDF.
Researchers with the Fuel Cycles and Materials Laboratory within the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University are working on the development of a new approach to creating the fuel pellets that are used in nuclear power reactors. They are creating porous fuel pellets to replace the solid pellets that are now used to fuel reactors.
I have blogged about problems that the French utility EDF is having with some of their nuclear reactors. Their subsidiary Areva which builds nuclear reactors was caught making substandard components for nuclear power plants with steel weakened by too much carbon in the alloy. Areva had faked quality control documents at the La Creusot foundry.
