Anti-nuclear groups challenge Flamanville-3's construction permit

London (Platts)--22Aug2006

Two anti-nuclear groups challenged Flamanville-3's construction permit in
court August 21, one of the plaintiffs, Sortir du Nucleaire, announced. SDR, a
federation of antinuclear groups, and Crilan, a local group near the
Flamanville site in Normandy, filed a challenge in Caen administrative court
to the permit allowing site preparation issued to Electricite de France August
4. Benoist Busson, SDR's lawyer, told Agence France Presse the challenge was
"the first round" in a legal battle the groups intend to wage against EDF's
project to build a 1,600-MW EPR at the site. The suit is based in part on a
1986 law on protection of the seacoast, he said. SDR accuses the government
and EDF of "haste" in starting construction before conclusions of the public
inquiry finished July 31 are published. Busson told AFP that if the site work
starts in September as EDF has said it intends, the groups would file for an
injunction.

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