Denying yesterday’s news that they were about to adopt ‘modular’ construction techniques for their nuclear reactors, EDF said in a statement:

‘EDF is proposing to use the same construction method for EPRs in the UK as it is using at Flamanville in a project which is on schedule to be operational in 2012.’

Flamanville? What, this Flamanville? The Flamanville which is a year behind schedule despite only being under construction for a year? The Flamaville whose costs have increased by 20 per cent? The Flamanville with the cracked concrete in its foundations and poor welding in the steel reactor liner?

That Flamanville? EDF are going to use the same construction method for EPRs in the UK as it is using at Flamanville? Yikes!