for the French designers at Areva than company pride. EPR is the big hope for a so-called third generation of reactors. It carries the aspirations of an industry rattled by the
shockwaves
of the Japanese nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima.
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The trade union representing Spanish miners says that the remaining seven miners who have been hold up in shafts deep underground in protest of the government cuts are abandoning the strike due to health concerns. The seven have spent 50 days underground. Three of the initial ten miners who started the strike were forced to abandon it in June for health reasons. The union said the opposition to the government's austerity measures would continue.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which seeks to
bring surviving Nazi war criminals to justice
, has urged Hungary to act against its most wanted suspect after a British newspaper reported finding him in Budapest. The Sun newspaper says its reporters confronted Laszlo Csatary in the doorway of his flat and tried to ask him about his past, but he shut the door on them, protesting his innocence. Now aged 97, he's accused of assisting in the murder of nearly 16,000 Jews in what is now the Slovakian city of Kosice. After the war, he escaped to Canada.
John Lord, one of the founders of the heavy rock group Deep Purple, has died. He was 71 and had been suffering from cancer. He co-wrote the band's most famous song Smoke On The Water, which has one of the best-known openings in rock music. Here's our arts reporter Vincent Dowd.