I hope they review the timing of this decision. The only thing I know of that was accomplished by the invasion was that it wiped the multiple Fukushima meltdowns off the screens of the world's TV in an instant.
Areva was already in financial difficulty (and Areva is extremely important to France), and Fukushima was an economic disaster of the first order for them since the result is almost sure to be a rejection of nuclear by all the potential buyers who have not already set out on that path...
AREVA is a world-leading company in nuclear energy.<7> It is the only company with a presence in each industrial activity linked to nuclear energy: mining, chemistry, enrichment, combustibles, services, engineering, nuclear propulsion and reactors, treatment, recycling, stabilization, and dismantling. AREVA also claims to offer technological solutions for CO₂-free energy; and produces earth leakage circuit breaker technologies.
Four main subsidiaries form the core of AREVA:
AREVA NP (formerly Framatome ANP) — Nuclear Power: develops and builds nuclear reactors; Siemens had a 34% stake in AREVA NP until April 2011.
AREVA NC (formerly Cogema) — Nuclear Cycle: covers the whole nuclear fuel cycle, from mining to waste disposal. Owns Eurodif
AREVA TA (formerly Technicatome) : develops and builds research reactors and reactors for the naval propulsion
AREVA T&D — Transmission and Distribution: power transmission and distribution. It was bought from Alstom on 9 January 2004.<9> Currently, AREVA T&D Division has been sold to ALSTOM and Schneider Electric.
The major partners of AREVA include: Euriware, STMicroelectronics, Eramet, and SAFRAN.
AREVA is part of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) alliance, along with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Washington Group International and BWX. GNEP is a plan initiated in 2006 to form an international partnership to reprocess spent nuclear fuel in a way that renders the plutonium in it usable for nuclear fuel but not for nuclear weapons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arevahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Électricité_de_France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDF_Energy