{"id":2853,"date":"2011-12-13T17:35:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T00:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2011-12-13T19:28:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T02:28:18","slug":"governor-otter-says-arevas-idaho-nuke-facility-is-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/12\/13\/governor-otter-says-arevas-idaho-nuke-facility-is-moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Otter Says Areva’s Idaho Nuke Facility is Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Idaho Governor Butch Otter says mid-day headlines (here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>) about Areva suspending its Idaho uranium enrichment plant aren’t true.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe assurances that I got from the folks over there when I called them, said that\u2019s not the case, that the headline is totally misleading,\u201d Otter says.\u00a0 “The enrichment project is going forward…in fact it’s fully funded through 2012.”<\/p>\n

But the CEO of the French energy company announced this morning<\/a> its uranium enrichment plant near Idaho Falls is<\/em> on hold.\u00a0 The press release doesn’t mention Idaho’s Eagle Rock facility, but this slide show presentation<\/a> does, specifically slide 45:<\/p>\n

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Slide #45 from Areva's Strategic Action Plan<\/p><\/div>\n

Areva CEO Luc Oursel says the company has been hit by financial problems that will affect the Eagle Rock Enrichment Facility and others worldwide.\u00a0 But Areva officials in the U.S. say something different.Michael French is a spokesman for Eagle Rock.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s no hold on the project,” he says.\u00a0 “There could be some impact depending on the timing of beginning of construction, but beyond that the project will move forward.\u201d\u00a0 French adds there are some \u201csignificant\u201d capital requirement issues the company must deal with, but design work and pre-construction planning on Eagle Rock continues.\u00a0 The project received a license two months ago from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Idaho Governor Butch Otter says mid-day headlines (here, here and here) about Areva suspending its Idaho uranium enrichment plant aren’t true. \u201cThe assurances that I got from the folks over there when I called them, said that\u2019s not the case, that the headline is totally misleading,\u201d Otter says.\u00a0 “The enrichment project is going forward…in fact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[118,27],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}