The report is severe. Could it be otherwise, with regard to the EPR, the third-generation nuclear reactor whose construction sites in Flamanville, in the English Channel, and Olkiluoto, in Finland, are just a sad chronicle of delays, faults and additional costs? The document published Thursday by the Court of Auditors on the EPR sector, and presented by its first president Pierre Moscovici, therefore multiplies the criticisms against the industrialists, EDF and Areva, and about the failing public control. The magistrates of the rue Cambon in particular dissected "the operational failure and the cost drift"of the Flamanville EPR. An industrial disaster which Jean-Martin Folz, the former boss of PSA, had performed the autopsy last year. When he delivered his report at the end of 2019, the Minister of Economy, Bruno Le Maire, recipient of an audit carried out by the cabinet Roland Berger, had already spoken of a "failure" . The Court of Auditors adds 148 pages to the already supported analysis of a past
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