Interview Dominique Vignon: ‘Politics interfered’

Dominique Vignon was technical director of the French-German EPR project and presided over Framatome, the company producing the EPR reactors, from 1996 until 2001, until Framatome was merged with Cogema into Areva. In 2000, he concluded the agreement with Siemens that has now been terminated by the Germans.