Nuclear News Roundup May 18, 2019 France’s state-controlled nuclear operator EDF still has “a significant amount of work to do” before fuel is loaded into the Flamanville-3 nuclear power reactor under construction in Normandy, the regulator ASN has said. Nucnet.org Uncertainty surrounding potential trade restrictions in the US continues to hinder contracting activity for uranium, Kazatomprom has said. Nucnet.org France will delay by 10 years the shutdown of some of its nuclear power plants in order to fulfil president Emmanuel Macron’s aim of making the country carbon-neutral by 2050, the government said on Tuesday. Nucnet.org Finnish power company TVO has brought forward annual outages at the Olkiluoto nuclear power station by four days because of the need to remove damaged fuel from Olkiluoto-2. Nucnet.org
