Areva and EDF tussle over contract

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Series Details 20.1.10
Publication Date 20/01/2010
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There has always been some sniping between EDF and Areva, France's two state-owned nuclear champions.

Article reports that the two companies are at war over a fuel-treatment contract and have had to go to the government in 2010 to arbitrate.

The row has revealed the tensions that lie beneath the surface in France's nuclear industry and which, if unchecked, could threaten the country's ambitions to dominate the global atomic revival.

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