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buy canada goose jacket cheap The European Commission has said the ASN green light for the Flamanville reactor vessel is a precondition for canadagooseparks EU approval of the recapitalisation of Areva and the planned sale of its reactor division Areva NP to EDF. buy canada goose jacket cheap
In recent months, EDF has said several times that Flamanville will start up in 2018, six years behind schedule. Its cost was last estimated at 10.5 billion euros ($11.8 billion) in September 2015, compared canada goose black friday sale with an initial estimate of 3 billion euros in 2004.
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