The date so feared by the employees of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant has arrived. Almost eight years after the promise of ex-president François Hollande, reactor n ° 1 will stop this Saturday at 2:30 a.m., before n ° 2, on June 30. Silence will then reign definitively in the engine rooms of the dean of the French power stations, which had been put into service in 1977.
The engineers and technicians of the Alsatian factory are all the more disgusted that the killing of their work tool is not linked to a technological obsolescence or a drop in current demand. " This is a political decision, which forces our group to close two units that work well, " recently explained to Figaro Jean-Bernard Lévy, the group's CEO.
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In fact, the Haut-Rhin plant has been one of the country's best rated security systems for several years, according to the very fastidious Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN). The "atomic policeman" also believes
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