For the Republican candidate in the presidential election, the revival of the atom is essential to reach “the zero carbon in 2035”.
Le Monde with AFP
The Republicans candidate (LR) in the presidential election was on a farm Advocacy for nuclear energy, Saturday, January 29, on the site of the Bugey Centrale (Ain). Valérie Pécresse called for the “massive remobilization of the sector” as part of a “Gaullian recovery plan” in energy matters. It also denounced “irresponsible and inconsistent decisions”, such as the closure of the Fessenheim power station (Haut-Rhin) and the scheduled stop of twelve other reactors by 2035, diagnosing “a real energy catastrophe” from France.
Emmanuel Macron’s “zigzag” energy policy “leads us straight into the wall” and “we no longer have the assurance of being supplied,” she launched at the end of A round table organized by local elected representatives (LR), attended by industrialists and energy players.
Without this “nuclear stimulus plan”, “we will not reach the zero carbon in 2050,” said the president of the Ile-de-France region, after a visit from the Bugey power station, which became the Older from France since the closure of Fessenheim in 2020. This program already involves “a reflection” on the construction of new EPR, beyond the six projects on the horizon of 2035.
Finance the atom as green energy
“The first thing I will ask for my prime minister is to establish a great rescue plan of EDF, this very large company” than “the government kneaded by taking the recipes from which it has Need for its investments and the renewal of the nuclear park, “said M me pecresse. Wednesday, more than 40% of EDF staff docked the government’s decision to compel the company to brauder its electricity to preserve the household portfolio and the benefit of its competitors.
While the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union will continue six weeks after its possible election, the candidate is committed to “bringing nuclear nuclear in the decarbon energies to be financed by the EU” . On January 21, Brussels adjourned his project to integrate the atom into the green energies eligible for certain financing, lack of consensus among the twenty-seven, but also to the European Parliament.
Among the presidential candidates, little oppose frontal nuclear power. Marine Le Pen wishes six new EPRs and an inspection and modernization construction site in operation. Eric Zemmour defends ten new reactors and burial of nuclear waste in Bure (Meuse). The Socialist Anne Hidalgo does not want new reactors but sees nuclearly a “transition energy” while waiting for the 100% renewable, without giving a date, while the Communist Fabien Roussel wants “at least” six new EPR and develop the Research on the melting technique. Only Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the ecologist Yannick Jadot demonstrate a frank resistance.
During his speech of November 9, 2021, Emmanuel Macron had said he wanted to “relaunch the construction of nuclear reactors, for the first time in decades”, to replace part of the existing park, which arrives at the end of life. But he has not specified his project since.