EDF's nuclear engineers were heartbroken. They did not want anyone with them when they had to definitively shut down the second reactor at the Fessenheim plant on the night of Monday 29 to Tuesday 30 June. The first was on February 22. Meanwhile, France has gone through the coronavirus crisis without a power outage. But we didn't want to change anything. "We sacrificed this power plant on a political altar," said Gérard Hug, president of the community of communes of the Pays Rhin-Brisach.
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The mayor of the place, Claude Brender, was re-elected in the first round of the municipal elections with 100% of the votes. Young LR deputy in the riding since 2017, Raphaël Schellenberger formed a parliamentary committee of inquiry to understand how Fessenheim had become such a political subject. Perhaps even a foreshadowing of the green wave of June 28! Its closure was decreed on February 19, 2019 by the Prime Minister; a decree which Emmanuel Macron had made the commitment during
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