The government has submitted to consultation a legislative text aimed at facilitating the start -up of new units on the sites of already active power stations.
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The shape and the bottom. It is on the two fronts that the main environmental protection organizations attacked the first version of the bill for accelerating the construction of new nuclear reactors, which was submitted to them for consultation. Only a few hours after presenting in the Council of Ministers on Monday, September 26, a legislative text intended to go “twice as quickly” in the deployment of renewable energies, the Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, has indeed revealed Its “Nuclear, a bill this time aimed at facilitating the start of future EPR 2.
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A way, for the government, to insist on the fact that its strategy to manage to produce much more low carbon electricity rests well on two pillars, the wind at sea and the photovoltaic on one side, and the atom of the other. “I will carry out a bill which will accelerate the construction of new reactors, on sites [of nuclear power plants] already existing, to hold the calendar,” said Agnès Pannier-Runacher on Tuesday. The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, announced, during his speech in Belfort, in February, his desire to launch the construction of six new reactors, even fourteen.
The first EPR 2 should see the light of day on the Penly site (Seine-Maritime), which already has two active units, and the government hopes to be able to start the work before the end of the five-year term in 2027, for a setting Service planned for best in 2035, or even in 2037. To achieve this, the bill, made up of ten articles, provides for a simplification of administrative procedures relating, for example, of the law of town planning or the process of derogation from the principle of ‘Prohibition of destruction of protected species.
Deadlines too short
“These sites”, where new reactors will be established, “we already know them from an environmental point of view, from a preventive archeology point of view, they are already artificialized, so we can go faster On the administrative instruction phases, “justified the minister. The text also proposes that possible litigation concerning these projects are processed first and last resort by the Council of State. He also recommends simplifying the review procedure for reactors already in activity over thirty-five years.
On the form, this is the question of the deadline left for consultation which arouses the anger of NGOs, the National Council for the Ecological Transition (CNTE) – which brings together associations but also unions of employees and employers , local authorities and parliamentarians – being called upon to decide on the text on October 5. For the Action Climate network, the government acts “in a rush by reducing environmental dialogue”.
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