The President of the Republic originally had to present before the end of 2021 the details of his stimulus strategy of new reactors. Procrastination that reminds that its position has often varied on the subject.
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It’s not just wind turbines that need wind to turn. Nuclear power plants too. And, right now, the breeze is capricious. During his speech of November 9, 2021, Emmanuel Macron had unveiled his wish to “revive the construction of nuclear reactors in our country”, and this “for the first time in decades”, in order to replace part of the existing park, which arrives at the end of life. The Head of State sees in the Atom the means of “guaranteeing the energy independence of France” and “the electric supply of our country”, as well as the fastest way towards “our objectives” environmental, ” In particular carbon neutrality in 2050 “. But since, more news, or almost.
Nuclear nuclear has not been mentioned during the presidential vows, December 31, during which the tenant of the Elysée simply pointed out that “we will have to make new industrial choices, especially in terms of energy, unpublished, in order to keep our climate commitments “. Then, Mr. Macron once again boasted the atom in an interview in Paris, on January 5, but without specifying what his plan covered in fact: how many reactors, where, when and for what cost? The head of state, however, was to detail it before the end of 2021. Officially, the CVIV-19 epidemic delayed the machine. The throes encountered by the sector in recent weeks do not offer, either, a context conducive to great ads.
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Thursday, January 13, EDF announced to reduce its nuclear power supply for 2022. At issue: the stopping of ten reactors over the fifty-six that the French park counts, including five for problems corrosion identified or suspected. A news that follows the revelation of a new delay in the construction of the Flamanville EPR (Manche), which was to be put into operation in 2012 and will not be finally before the “second quarter 2023”, acknowledged The public group, Wednesday. The invoice of the project, during that time, quadrupled compared to the initial budget. A “sinking”, denounced the candidate of France unsuitable for the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Despite these difficulties, the CEO of EDF, Jean-Bernard Lévy, has been a blow of pressure to the waitition of the government. On January 4, in front of journalists, he tried “urgent” to hire “concrete actions” to translate the promises of Emmanuel Macron. What had the gift of annoying the Minister of Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili. “The new EPR, it will be in 2037. Jean-Bernard Lévy should take care of what is happening now. The French state has put a lot of money on nuclear, Flamanville, the development of skills, etc.”, She recently tilted, according to the remarks reported by a visitor. According to a closest statement of the Head of State, the President of the Republic wishes to carry out his ads since Belfort, where are turbines than EDFs must redeem America General Electric. No date is fixed for the time.
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