Adam Sage, Paris -- The Times, January 19, 2010 - The French nuclear industry is in turmoil as uranium supplies have dried up and the treatment of spent fu el has been blocked amid an increasingly bitter row between the heads of its two main state operators.

EDF, the electricity group that runs 58 reactors in France, said that Areva, the nuclear energy group, had stopped uranium deliveries on January 4 and was refusing to take away spent fuel for reprocessing.

The transport of combustibles isn't working at the moment, Anne Lauvergeon, the chairwoman of Areva, said.

As a result, used fuel is remaining at EDF sites instead of being reprocessed at La Hague treatment plant in northern France.

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