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With the sell of Alstom to the US, is France still able to build nuclear reactor ?
by BoumTAC 5y ago
With the sell of Alstom to the US, is France still able to build nuclear reactor ?
- espadrine 5y agoAlstom hasn’t been purchased by a US company AFAIK. Are you talking about the sale of its power sector to GE in 2014? It is mostly about turbines, not the nuclear aspect, which is more typically under the expertise of Areva NC / Orano Cycle <https://www.orano.group/en https://www.orano.group/en>.
- byroot 5y ago> It is mostly about turbines Turbines used in nuclear power plants as well as nuclear ships. That sale was/is a major scandal in France.
- liketochill 5y agoSteam turbine is steam turbine no matter where steam comes from
- byroot 5y agoYou'd think so but that's not the case. Anyway the problem is mostly an independance one and there was no other French companies doing this.
- liketochill 5y agoWhat characteristic does steam turbine at nuclear plant have that is different from steam turbine at coal power plant? I’ve worked on steam turbine before that had boiler fed from bio-fuel or kerosene. Is the turbine itself not just a shaft with a series of blades, an inlet and an outlet? Any specifics you can get in to would be very interesting to me! Thanks