Fourth periodic safety review of French fleet to start in weeks, says EDF official

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The fourth periodic safety review of France’s 900-MW-class powerreactors will start “in a few weeks” at the four-unit Tricastin plant, anEDF official said April 30.Jean-Michel Quilichini, director of EDF’s Grand Carenage programof maintenance and improvements of French power reactors, told theEuropean Nuclear Energy Forum conference in Prague that the 10-yearperiodic safety reviews and outages are a “key component of the lifecycle” of nuclear power plants in France, as the country does not havelimits on the operational lifetimes of power reactors.